HISTORY 



FIRST TROOP 



Philadelphia City Cavalry. 



1774. 

NOVEMBER, 17, 

1874. 



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HISTORY 



FIRST TROOP 



Philadelphia City Cavalry. 



1774. 

NOVEMBER, 17, 

1874. 



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By HALLOWELL & CO., 
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Reports. 



UPON the approach of the Centennial Anniversary of the formation of the Troop, 
the propriety of compiling a history more extended than the publications entitled 
"Muster-Roll and Papers Selected from the Archives," which had appeared in 1815, 
1840 and 1S56, impressed itself upon the members; and, by a resolution of the Company 
adopted on March 4th, 1S72, a committee was appointed to revise the papers with a view 
to publishing a complete history of the Troop for the past one hundred years. 

The committee entered at once upon its duties, and to the present time has been fully 
occupied in collecting, arranging and preparing the material here presented. All the 
records, rolls, letters and other papers in the possession of the Company have been care- 
fully examined and classified, and have afforded much information heretofore overlooked. 
Circulars were addressed to relatives and descendants of former members, and, from the 
answers to these, light has been thrown upon some otherwise obscure points ; in a few 
instances original letters were presented to the Company; while, in others, the note-books 
and journals of early Troopers were freely lent to the committee. 

The most valuable paper which has come into possession of the committee is a MS. 
found among the archives of the Company, written in 1823 by John Donaldson, the first 
enlisted member, and afterwards Quartermaster, who was present with the Troop during 
its .service in the Revolutionary struggle. This narrative gives a sketch of the duty per- 
formed by the Company during that period, and has been valuable not only as filling the 
gaps which existed in the fragmentary history of the Troop, but as having, by the informa- 
tion given, suggested an examination of works of local history which otherwise might not 
have been noticed. That portion of the history of the Troop coming within our own 
times has been written by those members of the committee who were personal participants 
in the operations they have recorded, and the accuracy of the accounts can therefore be 
depended upon. 

A large amount of time and labor has been devoted to the preparation of the Rolls, 
which have been carefully compared with the minutes, muster-rolls and pay-rolls, and are 
believed to be correct. In connection with this part of the work, the committee would 
state that in the larger opportunities afforded them for investigation, they have discovered 



and corrected certain inaccuracies in the former publications, the most prominent of which 
is the statement that the Troop was organized by twenty-six gentlemen ; whereas, there 
were twenty- «^/i/ who signed the original Roll. The appendix contains copies of papers 
referred to in the body of the work, and other matter of curious interest bearing upon 
this history. 

In addition to the sources of information spoken of above, the committee acknowl- 
edges its indebtedness to many persons, and gives the following list of publications as 
having been consulted : "Journal of the Proceedings of Congress ;" "Griffith's Historical 
Notes;" "Force's Archives;" "Hazard's Register;" " Botta's American Revolution;" 
"Bancroft's United States;" " Pennsylvania Archives and Colonial Records ;" "Gordon's 
Pennsylvania;" "Day's Historical Collections ;" " Graydon's Recollections;" "Wilkin- 
son's Memoirs;" "Marshall's Washington," " Irving's Washington ;" " Sparks' Washing- 
ton Letters;" "New England Genealogical and Antiquarian Register ;" " Frothingham's 
Siege of Boston;" " Biographies of the Signers;" "Marshall's Diary;" Brackenridge's 
Western Insurrection ;" " Findley's Pennsylvania Insurrection ;" " Lossing's Battle Fields 
of the Revolution" and "History of the Rebellion ;" " Swinton's Army of the Potomac ;" 
" Memoirs Schuylkill Fishing Company, and Gloucester Fox-Hunting Club," "Sons of 
St. Patrick;" "Smith's Delaware County;" "Lewis' Chester County;" "Simpson's 
Philadelphians ;" "Thompson Westcott's Philadelphia;" and the iiublications of the 
Historical Societies of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island, and cotem- 
poraneous newspapers. 

This publication has been prepared especially for the members of the Company, and 
for those who feel a personal interest in its records. The narrow compass of its pages of 
necessity precluded more than brief allusions to public events of a general character, and 
then only where the history of the Troop was so interwoven as to render them necessary ; 
but, it is hoped, that the accuracy of its details will render it of value as a modest 
contribution to the history of our Country. 

Fairm.'vn Rogers, 
William Camac, 
M. Edward Rogers, 
A. Loudon Snowden, 
Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., 
James J. Macdowell, 
Jos. Lapsley Wilson, 
William D. Gemmill, 

Comm/Ufe. 
October i, 1875. 



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REPORT OF MARCH i, 1856. 

HE Committee appointed to revise and arrange the papers of the Troop, from the year 
1S40, and to select for publication such letters of a prior date as they may deem 
necessary, respectfully report : 

1. A series of letters (on service) from various officers of the Government during the 
revolutionary war. 

2. The successive changes in the roll oi commissioned and non-commissioned officers 

from January ist, 1840. 

3. The list of commissioned and non-commissioned officers, since original organiza- 
tion, continued from January ist, 1840. 

4. The muster-roll of the Troop continued from January ist, 1840, on same plan as 
that adopted in Report of that date. 

5. A continued list of honorary members. 

6. A list of non-active members. 

7. Various alterations of, and additions to, the by-laws, adopted at different times since 
January ist, 1840. 

Thos. C. James, 
R. Butler Price, 
Thos. Smith, 
W. S. Randall, 
Francis S. Lewis, 
March i, 1856. Committee. 



REPORT OF JANUARY i, 1840. 

THE Committee appointed on the 12th January, 1833, to revise and arrange for 
publication the papers of the Troop, from the year 1815, respectfully report : 

1. A condensed history of the corps, consisting of the more prominent events in 
which it has been engaged, with such other matter as your committee conceived might 
prove interesting and worthy of preservation. 

2. The successive changes in the roll of commissioned and non-commissioned officers, 
from time to time, since 7th September, 1815. 

3. A list of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers since its original 
organization. 



4. The muster-roll of the Troop, continued from September yth, 1815, upon the jjlan 
of the printed roll of that year, exhibiting the date of the nomination, election, and resig- 
nation of each member, and, as far as can be ascertained, the date of the decease of such 
as are dead. 

5. The alterations of, and additions to, the by-laws, and the late change of uniform, 
together with certain resolutions which your committee consider still in force, although not 
passed with such formalities as are requisite to entitle them to the rank of by-laws. 

Your committee recommend that, previous to publication, the by-laws should be so 
altered, amended and enlarged, as that when printed they may remain a permanent code 
of rules for the government of the corps. 

John Stille, Jr., 
W. W. McMain, 
January i, 1S40. Comtnittee. 



REPORT OF AUGUST 4. 181 5. 

THE committee appointed to examine the records of the Troop, arrange the roll of 
members, and revise the by-laws, beg leave to report : That they have endeavored 
to accomplish the objects of their appointment. In collecting and reviewing the papers 
and records of the Troop, they have met with much difficulty, owing to the length of 
time since its formation, and the imperfect collection of the papers. It appears that the 
Troop was formed by the association of twenty-six gentlemen, on the 17th November, 
1774, for the defence of the rights of their threatened country; and it was in the succeeding 
years increased by the election of members. During the whole revolutionary struggle, it 
was an active and efficient cohort in rendering assistance to resist the invading foe, by 
serving during the several arduous campaigns from 1776 to 17S3; and it is our proud boast 
that we belong to an association, which, during the whole progress of the war, merited 
and possessed the approbation of the illustrious Washington, and in peace enjoyed his 
friendship ; frequently engaged under his command in active employment — at times serving 
as his body-guard — and always remaining faithfully attached to him and the great object for 
which they were contending, notwithstanding the powerful political cabals and the diver- 
sity of opinion and feelings which prevailed during that period. From the time of the 
formation of the Troop to 1796, the committee have only found a few detached papers. 
From 1796 to the present date, they are happy to state, that the minutes have been regu- 
larly kept. From these they have selected some of the most important and interesting 



papers, which they recommend to be published in the book of by-laws. By an attentive 
examination of the records, and by the assistance of some of the original members, the 
committee have been enabled to make a list of members from the commencement to the 
present period, which may be considered as complete, and this they recommend also to be 
printed in the book of by-laws, that, in cherishing the remembrance of men .who have 
faithfully served their country, and done honor to the Troop, we may hand their names 
down to succeeding members, as an honorable testimony of the character of our association. 
The view of this history of the Troop, presented in a condensed form, may be the means 
of keeping alive that esprit de corps, so desirable in a military association like the one to 
which we belong, and of adding increased respectability and fresh laurels to those already 
won by our predecessors. 

The committee have prepared the by-laws, and now offer them for the ultimate adop- 
tion of the Troop, previous to publication. 

John R. C. Smith, Cornet, 
Jno. B. Simmons, ist Corporal, 
John Donnaldson, Qr. Master, 

Committee. 
Philadelphia, 4th August, 1815. 



HISTORY 

OF THE 

First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry 



In the autumn of the year 1774, the first assemblage in America which was duly vested 
with autliority from the people, met at the hall of the Carpenters' Company, in the City of 
Philadelphia. This Congress continued in session until the end of the month of October, and 
on the 1 2th of November following, a Committee of Correspondence was chosen by the citizens 
of Philadelphia. This Committee was empowered to determine on the best method for collect- 
ing the sense of the Provinces as to the most efficient means of resisting the aggressive acts of the 
British Ministry, and to carry into effect the Non-Importation resolutions of the lately adjourned 
Congress. The Committee met, pursuant to public notice, at the State House, in Philadelphia, 
in the afternoon of Thursday, the seventeenth of November, 1774. 

In the evening of the same day, three members of this Committee of Correspondence, 
together with twenty-five other gentlemen, — well representing the respectability and wealth 
of the city — met and formed a Company of Cavalry. Tradition has it that this meeting 
took place in Carpenters' Hall. 

The following are the names of these gentlemen : — 

Abraham Markoe, Henry Hill, 

Andrew Allen, John Boyle, 

Samuel Morris, William Tod, 

James Mease, John Mitchell, 

Thomas Leiper, George Campbell, 

William Hall, Samuel Caldwell, 

Samuel Penrose, Andrew Caldwell, 

Samuel Howell, Jr. Levi Hollingsworth, 

James Hunter, Blair McClenachan, 

James Budden, George Graff, 

John Dunlap, Benjamin Randolph, 

John Mease, Thomas Peters, 

Robert Hare, George Fullerton, 

William Pollard, William West, Jr. 



This Company was known as the Light-Horse of the City of Philadelphia, and was 
the first organization, in the Colonies, of volunteers associated for the purpose of maintaining 
the rights of the people against the continued oppression of the British government. 

These gentlemen, apart from their mutual business acquaintance with each other, had 
been associated as members of various organizations which had been instituted in the then 
infant City of Philadelphia, in the years preceding the formation of the Troop. 

These organizations were for the purpose of promoting healthful exercise and innocent 
recreation, and most notable among them was the "Schuylkill Fishing Company," founded 
by the name of "The Colony in Schuylkill," in the year 1732, — on the west bank of the 
Schuylkill River, immediately above the present Girard Avenue Bridge, — by a few of the 
original settlers, then living in the city, many of whom were emigrants with William Penn. 

During the Revolution its members took an active part in the war, and its Governor, 
Samuel Morris, with William Hall, Samuel Howell, Jr., Levi HoUingsworth, Thomas 
Peters, and John Donnaldson, served with the Troop. 

Li the year 17S3, with mock solemnity, the Company declared its independence, and 
changed its name to the "Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill," and now 
(1874), still preserves its activity and usefulness, having had through the long period of its 
brilliant career as Governors, Lt. Governors, Counsellors, Treasurers, Coroners, Secretaries, 
and members, many honored names of officers and men of the Troop. 

A similar society known as the "Schuylkill Company of Fort St. David's" was estab- 
lished about the year 1753, — ujjon the rocks in the river, at the eastern end of the present 
railroad bridge at the Falls of Schuylkill — and had upon its roll of membership the following 
Troopers: Samuel Morris, John Mease, Samuel Howell, Jr., Andrew Caldwell, Andrew 
Bunner, Dr. Thomas Bond, Jr., and Benjamin Davis, Jr. Upon the breaking out of the 
War of the Revolution their "Castle" was abandoned, and their museum removed. At the 
return of peace (i 783), their block-house having been burned by the Hessians, they united 
with the Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. 

The Society known as the "Gloucester Fox Hunting Club," from the nature of its 
purposes, would naturally appear to have had the most influence in bringing together the 
men who formed the Troop. 

This Club was organized at the Philadelphia Coffee House, S. W. Corner of Front and 
High (Market) Streets, October 29th, 1 766, and was composed of residents of the City, 
and a few gentlemen of New Jersey; and between the loth of October and the loth of Aj)ril, 
hunted weekly in the neighborhood of Gloucester, and within twenty miles of that town, up 
and down the course of the Delaware River. 

The uniform of the Club was "a brown cloth coatee with lappelled dragoon pockets, 
white buttons, and frock sleeves, buff waistcoat and breeches, and a black-velvet cap," .and 
it is probable that the "dark-brown short coat, faced and lined with white" of the Trooper 



of 1774, was this same hunting coat in which its members had folhnved the hounils in times of 
peace. 

With few exceptions, this Club entered with spirit into the War of the Revolution, the 
names of Samuel Morris, (President), James Mease, John Mease, Samuel Howell, Jr., John 
Boyle, John Mitchell, Samuel Caldwell, Levi Hollingsworth, George Graff, Joseph Wilson, 
appearing on its list of members before the year 1 774, and up to and including the year 1 778, 
are found the names of other Troopers, viz: Thomas Leiper, John Dunlap, Blair McClen- 
achan, Thomas Peters, John Lardner, Alexander Nesbit, James Caldwell, Jonathan Penrose, 
William Turnbull, Isaac Cox, Dr. Jonathan Potts, Dr. Thomas Bond, Jr., and JohnPatton, 
— twenty-three in all. 

During the remaining years of the existence of this Club a majority of its members were 
also members of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and Capt. Morris was the first, 
and Capt. Wharton the last President of the Club. This organization was dissolved in the 
year 1818, its numbers having been reduced by death and the withdrawal of many of its 
members, sufferers in the general financial embarrassment of the times 

In the year 1 771, there was organized "The Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick." 
It was composed of Irishmen, and their descendants in the first degree, who met four times a 
year, to wit: the 17th of March, the 17th of Jime, the 17th of September, and the 17th of 
December for social and convivial purposes. 

Of its twenty-four founders, nine were afterwards of the original twenty-eight members 
of the Troop, viz: James Mease, John Mease, Henry Hill, John Boyle, John Mitchell, 
George Campbell, Samuel Caldwell, Andrew Caldwell and George Fullerton ; and in addition 
to the above there were taken from its Rolls three others, John Dunlap, Blair McClenachan 
and William West, Jr., who had been members of the Society for some time before the organi- 
zation of the Troop. Among the eighty-eight names that had been on the Muster Rolls of 
the Troop during the war of the Revolution, are found the following additional eighteen 
"Sons of St. Patrick;" John Donnaldson, John Lardner, Alexander Nesbit, James Cald- 
well, Francis Nichols, John M. Nesbit, Patrick Moore, George Henry, James Crawford, 
Joseph Wilson, David H. Conyngham, George Hughes, John Barclay, John Patton, John 
Murray, Michael M. O'Brien, William Constable and Francis Johnston, making a total of 
thirty recruited from this Society. This organization ceased to exist about the year 1798, 
and was succeeded by the benevolent and honorable " Hibernian Society," of the present 
day. 

The "St. Andrew's Society at Philadelphia " was founded in December, 1 749, its members 
being Scotchmen and their descendants. Thomas Leiper, William Hall and William Tod, 
original members of the Troop, were members of this Society ; and William Turnbull , William 
Craig, James Craig, Jr., and John Murray, members of the Society before 1774, also became 
Troopers during the War of the Revolution. This Society is yet one of the most active 



charities in the city, aiding Scotchmen, tlieir widows and minor children, and has had on 
its roll of members many names of men of the Troop. 

" The Society of the Sons of St. George, for the advice and assistance of Englishmen in 
distress," was instituted in Philadelphia by the association of a number of the English residents 
of the city, on the 23d April, 1772. On the list of its founders and early members are found 
the names of the following original men of the Troop, viz : James Budden, William Pollard, 
Robert Hare and Thomas Peters ; and during the lately completed century of the existence 
of this noble charitable Society the positions of President, Vice President and Treasurer have 
several times been filled by Troopers and many of them have been members of the Society. 

On the Seventeenth of November, 1774, the Troop was organized by the unanimous 
election of the following officers : 

Abraham Markoe, Captain, William Hall, 2d Sergeant, 

Andrew Allen, ist Lieutenant, Levi Hollingsworth, Quarter Master, 

Samuel Morris, 2d Lieut, and Adjutant, William Pollard, ist Corporal, 

James Mease, Cornet, James Hunter, 2d Corporal. 

Thomas Leiper, ist Sergeant, 

The members equipped at their own expense, and adopted the following Uniform: 
"A dark brown short coat, faced and lined with white; white vest and breeches ; high- 
topped boots ; round black hat, bound with silver cord ; a buck's tail ; housings brown, edged 
with white, and the letters ^. §i. worked on them." And Arms : "A carbine; a pair of 
pistols and holsters, with flounces of brown cloth trimmed with white; a horseman's sword; 
white belts for the sword and carbine. ' ' ' 

The latter part of the year 1774, and the earlier part of the year 1775, were employed 
in earnest preparation for active duty. An experienced soldier who had belonged to a Corps 
of Horse in Ireland, was employed as Sword Master, and for the purpose of breaking the 
horses. 

The ranks were recruited by the election of the following members: 

John Donnaldson, Thomas Leaming, Jr., 

John Lardner, Jonathan Penrose, 

Alexander Nesbit, Godfrey Twells, 

James Caldwell, 
and the Company assembled for drill and general instruction several times a week. 

In the early part of this year. Captain Markoe presented to the Troop the handsome silken 
standard, of which a more particular description is to be found in this book. " It is of 

J It would appear that bromi w.^s the principal color of the early uniforms of the army as the Journals of Congress show 
(Nov. 4th, 1775) a resolution that " as much as possible of the cloth be dyed brown and distinctions of the regiments made in the 
facings," 

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great historic interest as being the first flag which bore upon it the thirteen stripes, symbolizing 
the thirteen colonies then asserting their rights and ultimately struggling for their inde- 
pendence. 

Its first recorded duty brought the Troop into early notice of General Washington, who 
having been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army, passed through Philadelphia, June 
23d, 1775, and was escorted by the Troop as far as New York, on his journey to the camp at 
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

In the autumn of this year, from a fragment of a Report signed by Samuel Caldwell, a 
detachment of the Troop was (October i6th) at Albany, New York, in charge of a wagon 
with money ($500,000), for the use of the army in Massachusetts Bay, and about the same time 
the yournah of Congress show that another detachment under Quarter-master Levi HoUings- 
worth went as far as Fort Ticonderoga with a " quantity of money for General Schuyler." 
The first mention of the Troop in the Minutes of the Committee of Safety, is found under 
date of October 24th, 1775, where it appears that "Dr. Kearsley went off this morning 
guarded by an Escort of Light Horse under the command of Captain Markoe, for Lancaster." 
In Christopher Marshall's Remembrancer,' it is recorded that the Troop paid to Lady 
Washington the compliment of escorting her upon her arrival into the city, (November 2ist), 
and her departure on her journey to join her husband at Cambridge, (November 27th). 

In the year 1776, the following members were elected:— Adam Zantzinger, Francis 
Nichols (late First Lieutenant of the Company of Captain Hendricks, who fell at Quebec, 
1775). John Maxwell Nesbit, Patrick Moore and Joseph Cowperthwaite (late Captain 
"Quaker Blues"). 

In the early part of this year, upon the receipt of the Neutrality Edict of the King of 
Denmark, by his subjects in America, Captain Markoe resigned the command of the Troop 
and Lieut. Samuel Morris was chosen Captain. The following members during the year also 
resigned their positions on the active roll of the Company : 

Lieut. Andrew Allen, Private John Mitchell, 

Cornet James Mease, " Andrew Caldwell, 

Private Robert Hare, " William West, Jr. 

" Henry Hill, 

All of whom had received commissions in the Continental service or in the Army and 

Navy of the Province, with the exception of Lieutenant Allen, who, although he had resigned 

the position of Attorney General of the Provincial Government, and had been chosen, 

November 3d, 1775, a delegate to Congress, at this time became disaffected. He was attainted 

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for treason in 1778, and his valuable estates confiscated and sold, when he went to England 
and died in London in the year 1825. ' 

During the first half of this year the Troop was employed in bearing important dis- 
patches, and in conveying money to the several camps of the army ; as for instance, Joseph 
Cowperthwaite with a detachment to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and James Budden with a 
detachment to New York with $300,000; also, on the iSth of June, Levi HoUingsworth was 
at Providence, Rhode Island, with an order from Congress on Governor Trumbull for twenty 
cannon to be transported to Philadelphia. 

Under date of July 30th, 1776, the following appears upon the yrw/v/frA of Congress : "A 
letter of the 28th, from brigadier general Mercer was laid before Congress and read, request- 
ing that six light horse may be sent to him, whereupon 

•■'Resolved, That the President write to S. Morris, Esq., captain of the light horse and 
request him to send six of his company to brigadier general Mercer." 

The detail was made according to the above, and after a service of some four weeks, the 
party returned to Philadelphia with the following letter of discharge : 

"To Messrs. Benj. Randolph, Jno. Dunlap, James Hunter, Jno. Lardner, Thomas 
Peters and Thomas Leiper, of the Philad^ Troop of light-Horse. 

Gentlemen: — The light-horse of New Jersey having been properly posted for the pur- 
pose of conveying Intelligence and performing such other military Duty as falls within their 
Department, it is not necessary to detain you longer here ; you may, therefore, as soon as 
convenient, proceed to Philad''. 

give me Leave, at the same time, to express my just sense of your Services, which have 
always been performed with the greatest Alacrity and Attention. 

I am, gentlemen. With great Regard, 

Your most humble Ser'., 

Hugh Mercer, 
Perth Amboy, August 26th, 1776. B'. Gen. 

The summer and autumn following, the Troop was, under orders from Congress, em- 
ployed in escorting prisoners, bearing dispatches and in charge of money to various points ; 
detachments going to Reading, Pennsylvania; to Williamsburg, Virginia ; to Amboy, New 
Jersey; to Albany, New York, and to New York City. While engaged on one of these 
expeditions, private George Fullerton was killed by the accidental discharge of his pistol. 



I Mr. Andrew Allen, the Attorney General, was more ardent and considered to be more sincere. He had attached himself 
to the CorDS of City Cavalry, commanded by Mr. Markoe ; but not long after, recognizing his error, he withdrew, giving out that 
he would hang up his cap and regimentals as monuments of his folly, and upon the declaration of independence he sought an asylum 
with General Howe.— Gravdon's Recollections, i8ii. 

* * * " Andrew Allen and several others have joined Gen'l Howe, from whom they met with the most cool 

treatment, he well knowing they had formerly been .active unlill their Power & Interest » 
—Letter, Peter Baynton to Abraham Markoe, Dec. 24th, 1776. 





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The autumn and winter of 1776 was perhaps the most gloomy and desperate period of 
the Revolution. Desertions from the army were constant and alarming, whilst disaffection 
was rife amongst certain classes of the people; Fort Washington with 2,600 men, had been 
captured, and Fort Lee abandoned with its valuable military stores, Washington driven from 
Long Island, and New York was in possession of the British forces who were threatening 
Philadelphia. The American army reduced in number by capture and desertion was at this 
time without regular cavalry, and but partially provided with artillery, was deficient in trans- 
portation and without tents, tools or camp equipage ; the men were half clothed, badly 
armed, debilitated by disease, disheartened by misfortune, and wearied by constant march- 
ing and fighting. Under such circumstances Washington determined to retreat slowly 
through New Jersey, and place himself on the Pennsylvania shore of the Delaware River. In 
the latter part of the month of November a portion of the Troop was at the Head-Quarters of 
the ,\rmy at Morristown, and the remainder of the command left Philadelphia early in the 
month of December. In the retreat from Princeton, the Troop, under the imtnediate direc- 
tion of the Commander-in-Chief, was ordered to cover the rear of the army, a highly honor- 
able and responsible duty. It was the last to cross, and was so closely pressed by the enemy's 
van-guard, that the latter reached the river before the Troop had effected a landing on the 
opposite shore. 

After the retreat, the main body lay along the west bank of the Delaware River from 
Corryell's ferry to Trenton ferry; the militia, from Trenton ferry to Bristol and Dunk's 
ferry, a distance of nearly thirty miles. Washington's Head-Quarters were removed to New- 
town, about four miles from the river. The Troop was also quartered there, and were daily 
employed by the Commander-in-Chief in such service as naturally devolved upon such a 
command. 

On the 25th of December, the Troop re-crossed the river with Washington, at McKonky's 
ferry, about eight miles above Trenton. The passage was made difiimlt and dangerous by 
storm, darkness and floating ice, and the boats upon which the TrooiJ had embarked, not 
being able to reach the shore, the men were compelled to take to the water, and force a 
passage amid the floating ice with their horses. 

A reconnoissance made by the Troop a few days previous to this, led the country people 
to suspect that the Hessians were to be attacked shortly. The Hessian Commander was so 
advised, and his men were kept in constant readiness for an attack. It it possible that the 
night attack upon the Hessian outposts by a company of Virginia troops under command of 
Captain Anderson, without Washington's knowledge, may have been mistaken by Colonel 
Rahl, the Hessian Commander, for the attack of which he had been warned. This attempted 
surprise having been promptly met, may have served to lull into fancied security the over 
confident Germans; the delay in crossing the river would seem to have been Providential in 
any event, as it rendered it impossible for the American army to reach Trenton during the 



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night as was intended, and tlie enemy exhausted by their Christmas revels and watching, 
retired, with the exception of a few pickets. 

" It was now broad day. Tlie slumber of the Hessians had been undisturbed ; their 
patrols reported that all was quiet, and the night watch of Yagers had turned in, leaving the 
sentinels at their several advanced posts, to keep up the communication between their right 
wing and the left. The storm beat violently in the faces of the Americans ; the men were 
stiff from cold.and a continuous march of fifteen miles, but now when the time of the attack 
came, they thought of nothing but victory." ' 

The army marching in two columns, the right under General Sullivan by the 
river road, the left under the Commander-in-Chief, by the Pennington road, reached 
Trenton at 8 o'clock, and the attack was made simultaneously. The Troop was attached 
to the head of the column under Washington, and acting as his body guard, had the sat- 
isfaction of witnessing the surrender of the Hessian force. 

During the battle a body of Hessians had taken position in a barn from which they 
kept up a steady fire. A detachment of the Troop under Cornet Dunlap was directed 
to dislodge them. He made his approach upon the rear of the barn, and boldly demanded 
the surrender of the whole party. After some parley this was effected, the Hessians being 
under the impression that they were far outnumbered by the Troop. ^ 

After the battle, the main body of the army re-crossed the river with the prisoners and 
munitions captured. The Troop was ordered to remain on the Jersey side and patrol the 
river, as well as the Pennington roads, until dark, and then to cross under cover of night with 
or without their horses as they might be able. The weather became so intensely cold that the 
floating ice formed into a solid mass, stretching from shore to shore. It was after midnight 
before a passage could be forced with the boats, and the Troop did not reach quarters until 
after daylight, having been on duty two nights and one day without sleep and with but little 
food. 

The Troop remained in quarters at Newtown, Pennsylvania, its members acting as 
bearers of dispatches from Wa,shington to his Generals until the 30th day of December. On 
this day Washington re-crossed the Delaware at the head of the army, and occupied Trenton. 
On the 31st inst.. Colonel Joseph Reed, Adjutant General, was sent with an escort of twelve 
members of the Troop, viz : 



2nd Lieut. James Budden, Pr 

Cornet John Dunlap, 
Sergt. Thomas Leiper, 
Corp. William Pollard, 

" James Hunter, 
Private Samuel Howell, Jr., 



vate George Campbell, 
Samuel Caldwell, 
Benjamin Randolph, 
Thomas Peters, 
John Donnaldson, 
John Lardner, 



! A portion of the flag with other trophies captured at this lime are in possession of the Troop. 



to reconnoitre the enemy, of whose exact strength and position Washington was ignorant. 
Colonel Reed was selected to head the reconnoissance, owing to his familiarity with the neigh- 
borhood. The detachment examined the country around Princeton, and coming upon a forag- 
ing party, consisting of a Commissary, a Sergeant and twelve British soldiers, they captured 
the entire party and their wagon train, without loss, returning to camp after an absence of 
a few hours. ■ 

An examination of the prisoners captured, revealed of what importance this reconnois- 
sance was to the army. The superiority of the enemy was determined beyond reasonable 
doubt, he having been reinforced by General Grant, and his intention discovered to advance 
upon our lines. The disparity of forces was very great, that of Washington being about 
4,700 men, badly equipped, and many of them new recruits; whilst the British force con- 
sisted of over 8,000 trained soldiers, admirably appointed. 

The Commander-in-Chief deemed the situation critical. To advance was certain de- 
feat, and to retreat rapidly in the face of the enemy was not practicable. He resolved to act 
on the defensive and dispute every inch of ground and postpone a decided action until night. 
The main portion of his force was posted behind the Assanpink Creek, and awaited the 
enemy's approach. Colonel Hand with his Riflemen and Captain Forrest with six guns, oc- 
cupied a ravine leading to the creek, from which they harrassed the enemy, driving back their 
advance with great loss and confusion. The boldness of this advanced body completely 
checked the whole British forces for a time, and lost to Cornwallis two full hours. Mean- 
time detachments of the Troop were sent to Bordentown and Burlington to order up the 
militia under Generals Mifflin arid Cadwalader. As the evening advanced the enemy ap- 
peared in force and opened a cannonade upon the American lines ; which were by a con- 
centration of his men, about dark, driven across the ravine leading to the Assanpink and 
ultimately across the bridge over that stream. He made many desperate attempts to cross the 
bridge but was as often repulsed, and at length ceased any further effort, having lost very 
heavily in killed and wounded. The fight continued until night-fall when the enemy with- 
drew much shattered, but fully confident of capturing or destroying the little army of the 
Americans the following morning. 

During the entire day the Troop was actively engaged, rendering important service to 
the Commander-in-Chief. A portion was on patrol duty back of Trenton toward Prince- 
ton, and was not relieved until nine o'clock in the evening. Washington learning from 
this detachment that the road to Princeton south of the Assanpink, was unoccupied by 

I This spirited affair is spoken of by General Wilkinson, who was with the army at that time : ** This little act of decisive 
gallantry, performed by independent gentlemen, tended to increase the confidence of the troops, and certainly reflected high honor 
on the small detachment which had been taken from the patriotic old First Troop of Philadelphia, then commanded by that respecta- 
ble citizen soldier, Capt. Samuel Morris." Memoirs, James Wilkinson, 1816. 

The gorgets or breastplates captured with the British officers on this occasion, were worn in 1824 by William J. Leiper and 
John Lardner, sons of the original members, on the occasion of the reception of General La Fayette, and are now in the possession of 
the Troop. 



the enemy, silently withdrew his forces during the night, between twelve and one o'clock, 
and marched to Princeton, reaching the Quaker Meeting House near Stony Brook bv.fore day- 
light. During the fight at Trenton, and in the subsequent march toward Princeton, AVash- 
ington depended almost exclusively upon the Troop for conveying despatches to the different- 
Generals, as well as for the reconnoissances that were made. 

The next morning was the dawn of the day of the Battle of Princeton, which resulted 
in a brilliant victory for the American cause. The Troop was in attendance upon the Com- 
mander-in-Chief during the engagement, and was among those who rallied about him when 
he rode to the front and by his presence, personal courage, and example, turned the tide of 
battle which for a time threatened disaster to his army. ' 

AVhen the retreat of the enemy began, the Troop joined in the pursuit, securing many 
prisoners and part of a' wagon train. The rout was complete, and the result of the day 
would have been of greater advantage to the American cause, if Washington had been able 
to give rapid pursuit with a sufficient body of cavalry, but this he was unfortunately unable 
to do as the only cavalry he had was the Troop, which numbered but twenty-five men. ^ 

After the battle of Princeton the army moved in the direction of Morristown, leaving 
a detachment of the Troop at the former place to bring off stragglers and stock. They 
did not leave until the enemy under Cornwallis, made his appearance in the town. To the 
Troop was assigned the duty of covering the retreat and destroying the bridges in the rear of 
the army, and in this service gave essential aid to Captain Moulder, who had deter- 
mined, although against orders, not to let his guns fall into the enemy's hands. 3 Having 
discharged this important duty, it reassembled at Millstone and followed the main body to 
Morristown. 

The army having taken possession of Morristown, a detachment of the Troop was as- 
signed to picket duty on the roads leading to Brunswick. This detachment was entertained 
very hospitably by Mr. John Morton of New York, who resided a few miles south of Morris- 
town, and was a personal friend of some of the Troopers. On their departure he informed 

I There was not a space of a hundred yards probably between the two bodies fighting and fugitive men, when our gallant 
Chief rode boldly up in front of the British lines and bade our routed troops to come on and help him recover the fortunes of the day, 
and could they behold their Chieftain there, .and let him alone to be sacrificed? No 1 they caught his adventurous .-spirit and .as- 
sisted by Moulder's ten gims skillfully handled and a few brave old New England troops under Hitchcock, the gallant sons of Phila- 
delphia gentlemen and other brave boys of Pennsylvania, won the day. — Historic Manuel, C. C. Haven, Trenton, N.J. 



2 At the time General Mercer was engaged. General Hand advanced by a rapid movement to turn the enemy's left flank 
and had nearly succeeded when they fled in disorder up the north side of Stony Brook, over fields and fences, without regard to roads 
towards Pennington. The riflemen accompanied by General Washington in person, with a squad of the Philadelphia Troop were 
the first in the pursuit. It was on this occasion that General Washington, whilst engaged in encouraging the pursuit exclaimed; 
" It is a fine chase my boys," such was the impetuosity of his character when he gave reins to his sensibilities. — Memoirs, James 
Wilkinson, i8i6. 

3 Moulder was ordered to cover the retreat of our army to Morristown, by holding the enemy in check as long as safe to his 
men, then to spike and leave his guns, and save his men by following with all speed after the main body of the army. But they 
refusing to earn the names of " grass combers" by running away from their guns, with the aid of ropes and forty men to each, ran 
them up the road after the army, pursued by a company of British horse. Capt. Samuel Morris, of the city of Philadelphia, 
(Quaker Sam.) held his company back for the protection of Moulder's boys; and seeing their danger, galloped to their rear and 
formed across the road to await the British horse, who finding their game blocked, wheeled and returned to Princeton. Thus 
Moulder's guns were saved and taken into camp at Morristown. — Historic Manuel, C. C. Haven. ■ 



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the officer in command that he would leave two quarter casks of Madeira at the bottom of the 
cellar steps that night, one he desired to be delivered to General Washington, and the 
other to be kept by the Troop. Acting upon this hint, the Troopers returned during the 
night, and secured the wine. An incident of this pleasant foraging was the appearance of a 
party of British Horse on the scene, just as the casks had been taken from the cellar ; the 
enemy was held at bay however, until the prize was^ secured beyond rescue or reclamation. 
The Troop continued in active service imtil January 23d, 1777. At the close of the 
campaign General Washington tendered to the members of the Troop commissions in the 
army as a reward for their gallantry, and gave them the following complimentary discharge : 

"The Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, under the command of Captain Morris, 
having perform'd their Tour of duty, are discharged for the present — 

I take this Opportunity of returning my most sincere thanks to the Captain and to 
the Gentlemen who compose the Troop, for the many essential services which they have ren- 
dered to their Country, and to me personally, during the Course of this severe Campaign. 
Tho' composed of Gentlemen of Fortune, they have shewn a noble Example of discipline 
and subordination, and in several Actions have shewn a Spirit of Bravery which will ever 
do Honor to them and will ever be gratefully remembered by me. 

G". WjVshington. 
Give at Head-Quarters, 

Morris Town, This zf Jan>., 1777."' 



The Troop arrived in Philadelphia 
February, 1777. The members engaged 

Samuel Morris, Captain. 
James Budden, 2d Lieut. 
John Dunlap, Comet. 
Tho.\l\s Leiper, ist Serg't. 
William Hall, 2d " 
Levi Hollingsworth, Q. M. Serg't 
William Pollard, ist Corp. 
James Hunter, 2d " 

S.\MUEL Howell, Jr., Private, 
John Me.\se, '• 

John Boyle, " 

William Tod, " 

George Campbell, " 



on January 24th, and was dismissed on the ist of 
in this campaign were : 

Samuel Caldwell, Private. 

Blair McClenachan, " 

George Graff, •' 

Benjamin Randolph, " 

Thomas Peters, " 

John Donnaldson, " 

John Lardner, " 

.Alexander Nesbitt, " 

James C.ald\vell, " 

Thom.\s Leaming, Jr. " 

Jonathan Penrose, " 

Adam Z.^ntzinger. " 
Twenty-five ( 25 ) members and a Tnmi peter. 



I The facsimile of this letlcr is printed from .1 copper pbte presented to the Troop by Liilje W. Morris, Esq., May 5, 1823. 



Thus ended one of the most brilliant camjiaigns of the Revolution, spoken of by Alex- 
ander Hamilton as : " The dawnings of that bright day, which afterwards broke forth with such 
resplendent lustre." ' 

After the return of the Troop its members were very active in preparing themselves for 
any future duty that might devolve upon them, and were frequently engaged in bearing dis- 
patches from this city, the seat of government, to the several armies in the field ; and before 
the summer of this year twenty names were added to the Muster Roll, notwithstanding the 
general apathy which existed at that time among the people. = 

The nature of some of the services of the Troop at this period will appear from the fol- 
lowing extract from the Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council : — 

"Philadelphia, August 13th, 1777. — The Continental Board of War having in writing 
desired that this Council will procure-an Officer and Six Gentlemen of the Philadelphia Light 
Horse to escort John Penn and r)enj'a. Chew, Esq'rs., as prisoners to Fredericksburg in Vir- 
ginia, and direct them to call at the War Office & receive their instruction as soon as possi- 
ble, and the resolutions of Congress respecting the removal of the aforesaid Gentlemen being 
read ; thereupon 

" Ordered, That the Officers of the Light Horse of this City be requested to select from 
among themselves and their escort an officer & Six Gentlemen to escort," etc. 

The fleet bearing the portion of the British army, which had embarked at New York in 
the month of July, appeared in Chesapeake Bay, and on Sunday, the 24th of August, 
Washington, at the head of about 10,000 men, marched through Philadelphia. He was 
escorted by the Troop in passing through the city, and a detachment under Captain Morris 
accompanied him to the southward. 

The enemy effected a landing on the 27th of August at "Head of Elk," Maryland, and 
began their march toward Philadelphia. 

On the 5th of September the Supreme Executive Council requested Lieutenant James 
Budden to attend with his "whole troop (which are now in the city)" a number of di.saff"ected 
persons and Quakers, who had refused to take the "Test Oath" and were then confined in the 
Masonic Lodge, on their journey as prisoners to the interior. The Troop " made earnest 
application to be allowed to join General Washington and to be released from the journey 
to Virginia." And the President of the Council " instructed the direction of the business 
to two Gentlemen of the Troop and a competent number of the City Guards. ' ' 3 

I Eulogium of General Greene, 1786. 

2S.1W on our arrival in Philadelphia and on the journey to that place, * * no military parade or any indication 

of martial vigor on the part of the country. General Washington with the little remnant of his army at Morrislown, seemed left 
to scuffle for liberty, like another Cato at Utica. « « * The generous exertions of the Philadelphia Troop of 

Cavalry are honorable exceptions to the general supineness. — Graydon's Recollections, 1811. 

3 Letter President Wharton to Col. Nichola, Sept. 10, 1777.— Penn" .\ Archives. 



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The following extract from the Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council further show: 
* t- * "Resolved, That the Gentlemen of the Light Horse of this City, 

except two who are to attend the prisoners now at the Lodge to Reading on their march to 
Stanton, in Augusta County in the State of Virginia, do proceed immediately to Camp on 
a Tour of Duty, and that the said two gentlemen join the Corps after they have discharged 
the said duty as soon as possible. * =■= '- An order was drawn on 

the Treasurer in favor of Samuel Caldwell and Alexander Nesbit, Gentlemen of the Light 
Horse for the sum of ^loo to pay their expenses, and for which they are to account." 

On being informed of this action of the Council, the remainder of the Troop under 
Lieutenant Budden set out for the army, and joined the detachment under Captain Morris who 
was at that time with General Armstrong. A portion of the command was then ordered to 
duty with Generals Potter and Maxwell. 

In the preliminary movements preceding the Battle of Brandywine, September nth, 
1777, Washington was much perplexed in ascertaining the enemy's movements. General 
Howe by skillful manceuvring had completely concealed his real plan of attack. This 
remained the case until about two o'clock in the afternoon of the day before the battle, when 
a party of the Troop, which had been out all day reconnoitring and skirmishing with the 
enemy's advance, reported to Head-Quarters that Cornwallis had formed a junction with 
Knyphausen with the evident intention of crossing the Brandywine Creek above, and ad- 
vancing in two columns on Washington's right; to meet this emergency the Commander-in- 
Chief took post upon the high ground north of the creek, above Chad's Ford, from which 
position he was obliged to withdraw when the defeat of the other portion of the American 
army was discovered. 

After the battle the Troop retired with General Maxwell to Chester, where it remained 
until the next day a.s a rallying force for detached parties, and then fell back with the army 
to Philadelphia. On the 1 9th of September a detachment of the Troop was sent out by General 
Armstrong to reconnoitre the enemy, whom they encountered on the Lancaster Road, about 
eight miles from Spread Eagle Tavern. After ascertaining, as nearly as possible, his strength 
and position, the detachment made a bold dash and captured two of his pickets. Upon report- 
ing that night to General Armstrong at Van Deeren's Mill, at the mouth of the Wissahickon 
Creek, he sent them with the prisoners to Head-Quarters at Perkiomen, Montgomery County, 
where 'they arrived just before daybreak, September 20th, and received the thanks of Wash- 
ington, through Colonel Tilghman. 

Shortly after this the Troop moved its quarters to Harry Conrad's Tavern, twenty miles 
from the city, constantly reconnoitring the enemy, until the 26th of September, when he 
occupied Philadelphia. At this period the greater portion of the Troop was on duty 
with General Armstrong ; the main body of the army moved to Skippack Creek, and 



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the militia was called in. General Armstrong was ordered to turn the left flank of the 
enemy and attack him in the rear, and in obedience to this order, moved down what is now 
known as the Ridge Road toward Van Deeren's and Robeson's mills, at the mouth of the 
Wissahickon, the Troop being employed in examining the various roads, and in keeping open 
the communication between the different columns. 

The morning of the Battle of Germantown, October 4th, 1777, was so dark from heavy fog, 
that General Armstrong, who was first upon the ground with his command, could not make 
the attack upon the enemy with any certainty. The Troopers to recognize each other in the 
fight, wore a piece of white paper in front of their caps. During the skirmishing that 
took place the Troop cajitured a Hessian Lieutenant and some prisoners. News of the re- 
treat of the main body of the army having reached General Armstrong, he thereupon called 
in his forces, and fell back to his former position. 

The campaign being practically ended, the Troop was honorably discharged by General 
Armstrong, with thanks. 

The following members served in the campaign of September and October of this year: 
Samuel Morris, Captain. Samuel Caldwell, Private. 

James BuDDEN, 2nd Lieut. Blair McClenachan, " 

■ John Dunlap, Cornet. John Donnaldson, " 

Thomas Leiper, ist Sergt, John Lardner, " 

William Hall, 2nd " Alexander Nesbitt, " 

Samuel Penrose, Q. M. Sergt. James Caldwell, " 

William Pollard, ist Corp. Thomas Leaminu, Jr., " 

James Hunter, 2nd Corp. William Turnbull, ' ' 

Samuel Howell, Jr., Private. George Henry, " 

George Campbell, " Andrew Bunner. " 

Twenty (20) with a Trumpeter and a Rough Rider. 

On the 20th of November, private John Mease made application to the Council of Safety 
for the use of wagons to transport his household goods to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the 
Council " in consideration of his spirited services in said Troop, granted him their protection 
in the use of three waggons and forbade the impressing of them." ' 

At this time the Troop was with Washington at Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, 
and frequently joined reconnoitring parties or made independent excursions, obtain- 
ing valuable information and keeping the enemy at all times on the alert, each member being 
furnished with a "pass" from the Commander-in-Chief 2 On one occasion a few of them 

1 Minutes of Council of Safety.— Penn'a Archives. 

2 One of these passes now in the possession of the Troop reads, — " Head Quarters, ist Decern.. 1777. 
Permit Mr. Jno. Donnaldson of the Philadelphia Light Horse to pass and repass at all times. 

By His Excellency's Command, 

Tench Tilghraan." 



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under command of Colonel Banner of the Pennsylvania Line, discovering a party of twenty 
Yager Horse at Hetman's Tavern, captured the pickets and stampeded the whole party. 

On the 4th of December, when General Howe marched his entire force to Chestnut Hill, 
the Troop was constantly employed in watching the enemy's movements. On the eighth, sev- 
eral members, by request of Washington, joined a small body of Colonel Moylan's Horse, under 
Major McLane, in a reconnoissance of the enemy's lines. At noon they discovered the enemy 
in motion, and sent off a messenger to Head-Quarters with tlie intelligence. Gaining the 
enemy's rear they found that Howe had changed front, and was marching down the Old 
• York Road with his entire force, which was also promptly communicated to Head-Quarters. 
Finding that the enemy had extended his lines to the left, the party was forced to make a 
bold push to save themselves, which was accomplished with difficulty and danger by cross- 
ing the enemy's front to the road beyond Germantown, reaching Head-Quarters in the 
evening. 

The American army having gone into winter quarters at Valley Forge, (December 12th, 
1777), the Troop was divided into detachments, and .'ient to various points, where their ser- 
vices would be most valuable. The scat of government being at York, and the Council of 
Safety at Lancaster, detachments were always in attendance at these towns to perform any 
duty assigned them. 

Cornet Dunlap was employed by Congress in some special and important service, 
the exact nature of which is unknown, and received the following requisitions issued by 
Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Congress, and Assistant Quarter-Master General Cox : 

"Mr. John Dunlap being employed in a critical Service by Congress, may have need of 
the assistance of a small military Guard, and of two Waggons. In such case, military and 
staff officers are requested to give him the necessary assistance upon his application. 

Charles Thomson, Sec'y 
York Town. Feb. 3, 1778. of Congress." 

" Please to furnish Mr. John Dunlap with such Waggons and Horses as he may from 
time to time have occasion for. 

Y'. Ob' S"., 

John Cox, 
To the Waggon -master, A. Q. M. General. 

or any of his Deputies." 
A portion of the Troop was with General La Fayette on the iSth of May, 177S, when 
he, with 2500 men and eight guns, crossed the Schuylkill River and took a position on 
Barren Hill. On the night of the nineteenth. General Grant, at the head of 5300 picked 
men, attempted a surprise of the Americans, when General La Fayette by sending out small 
parties, as if they were the heads of attacking columns, deceived his antagonist and re-crossed 
the Schuylkill at another Ford without loss. 



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On the i8th of June, 177S, the British evacuated Philadelphia, and General Arnold took 
command of the city the following day. The different detachments of the Troop were re- 
called, and on the 14th of July all its members were re-united for the first time in many long 
and weary months. On this occasion, they assembled and proceeded to Chester to meet 
M. Gerard, the French Ambassador, whom they escorted to the city, where he was received 
with ceremony by Congress. During this summer, autumn and succeeding wmter, the Troop 
was constantly performing such service as was assigned it by Congress, or the State authori- 
ties. In the spring of 1779, a detail escorted M. Gerard, the Ambassador, on a visit to the 
American camp. The following letter from General Greene to Colonel Biddle, refers to this 
visit of the French Ambassador, and to the Troop as his escort. 

" CoL. Coxe's, 7 o'clock in the Evening. 
April 27, 1779. 
Sir,— 

The Ambassador, with all his train, will be in Camp to-morrow. He Sets out at Seven 

in the morning, and intends dining with the General. I left Philadelphia near three o'clock 

this afternoon. Your friends were all well. I drank Tea last Evening with Mrs. AVilkinson. 

The Philadelphia light-Horse escorted the Ambassador as far as this place, and made a 

very grand cavalcade. 

Lay in plenty of forage, if possible, as the Minister's Eyes are everywhere, and to every- 
thing. He will think us more distressed than we are if we don't furnish forage. 

Yours, 

N. Greene." 
Col. Biddle. 

{Endorsed'), 

Trenton, April 27, 1779, Gen' Greene. 

In June a detail of eight men was sent out to arrest some suspicious persons, (believed 
to be spies), who had passed up the river. The detail was made under the following order 
from President Reed : 

"Walnut Street, June 14th, 1779. 
"Sir,— 

Information having been given me that some Persons, under Suspicious Circumstances, 
having come up the River, have passed on towards Trenton, from which there is Reason to 
believe they are Spies upon some dangerous Errand, you are therefore desired to detach 8 of 
the troop, 4 on each Side of the River, and apprehend these Persons alluded to. They are 
on board a small New York built boat, three in number. They are 2 lusty men and a strip- 
ling, the latter supposed dressed in Blue. When taken, you will jjlease to direct them to be 



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brought before me for further examination. You will also direct that they be sent immedi- 
ately, and if Papers are found, that they be transmitted with the Persons. 

I am, Sir, 

Your obed., hbble serv. 

Jos : Reed, 

^Addressed) P'-^^^^^'-" 

To Capt. Morris, or, in his Absence, 

the Command* Officer of the Philad. Light-Horse." 

The men were overtaken and turned over to the proper authorities. In the summer of 
1779, the British received strong re-inforcements at New York, and again threatened to over 
run New Jersey. In August, the Troop took the field, on a call of the Commander-in- 
Chief, stronger in numbers than ever before, sixteen members having been elected during 
the years 1778-79. It marched to Princeton, but the intention of the enemy having been 
abandoned, the Troop was discharged about the close of the month. 

The following members had been on duty : 



Samuel Morris, Captain, 
John Budden, 2nd Lieut., 
John Lardner, Cornet, 
Thomas Leiper, ist Sergt., 
William Hall, 2nd " 
Samuel Penrose, Q. M. Sergt. 
William Pollard, ist Corp.. 
James Hunter, 2nd " 
George Campbell, Private, 
Samuel Caldwell, " 
Blair McClenachan, " 
John Donnaldson, " 
Alexander Nesbitt, " 
James Caldwell, " 

Thomas Leaming, Jr., " 
Francis Nichols, " 

William Turnbull, ' ' 
George Henry, " 

James Crawford, " 

David Lenox, " 



John Montgomery, Private, 
Thomas C. Morris, 
David H. Conyngham, " 

Thomas Irwin, " 

Jonathan Mifflin, " 

Isaac Cox, " 

William Allricks, " 

Joseph Prowell, " 

Andrew Bunner, " 

John Lyttle, " 
Benjamin Davis, Jr., " 

Joseph Fisher, ■' 

William Nichols, "' 

Matthew Irwin, " 

James Craig, Jr., " 

John Barclay, " 

David Duncan, " 

John Patton, " 

John Redman, " 

John Murray, " 



Forty (40) members and a Trumpeter and Rough rider. 

In the autumn of this year, there occurred a very serious riot in Philadelphia. The 
apparent cause of this outbreak was substantially as follows :— In the month of September, 



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a town meeting of citizens appointed a Committee to regulate the prices of rum, salt, sugar, 
coffee, flour &c., which measure met with the strongest opposition from the importers and 
traders, and many refused to conform to the demands of the Committee. The people at this 
time were much distressed by the consequences of a rapidly depreciating currency, and the 
lower class of the population was led to believe that the evil was owing to the monopolizing of 
goods by the merchants. About the last of the month a mob assembled in large numbers 
and marched through the city, threatening to break open the store-houses of those who re- 
fused to open them, distribute the contents and punish the owners. Placards were posted on 
the 4th of October, threatening Robert Morris, Blair McClenachan, and many others, with 
violence. The persons menaced in these placards, determined to defend themselves, and with 
some thirty or forty of their friends, who had provided themselves with arms, took post in 
the house of James Wilson, Esq. , one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, 
who had lately been proscribed by the mob for having exercised his professional duty as a 
lawyer in behalf of certain persons who had been prosecuted for treason.' 

The Troop having been apprised of the threatened riot, assembled at its rendezvous and 
made ready to mount and move at a moments warning At two o'clock the mob appeared 
before Wilson's house in force, with two pieces of cannon, and a few shots were fired, killing 
Captain Campbell and slightly wounding two others in the house. A sledge and crow-bar 
were then procured from a smith's shop and an attempt made to force the door. At this 
critical moment the Troop came upon the scene in three detachments, from different streets, 
charging the mob simultaneously. Immediately the cry was raised, " the Horse, the Horse," 
and as the sword was very freely used, the rioters gave way in every direction ; not, however, 
before a considerable number were wounded, and many of them taken prisoners and handed 
over to the civil authorities. The Troop patrolled the streets during the greater part of the 
night, but it was some days before order was restored, and the Troopers threatened by the mob 
for the part they had taken, found it necessary to keep themselves together for mutual support. 
On the night following the day after the attack on Mr. Wilson's house, a number of the 
rioters surrounded the mansion of private David Lenox at Germantown, and prepared to 
force an entrance ; upon his assurance that he would open the door at daylight the mob 
agreed to wait until that time. In the meanwhile he contrived to dispatch a brave woman, 
who lived in his family, to the city for assistance, and the Troop arrived in season for his pro- 
tection. The prompt and energetic conduct of the Troop during this disturbance unques- 
tionably prevented the affair from assuming a more alarming aspect, and the lives of many 
valuable citizens were spared by its efforts. 

In October following, the Troop escorted M. Gerard as far as Chester, Pa., on his de- 
parture from America, in obedience to the following letter from President Reed ; 

I The house occupied by and belonging to Mr. Wilson, wris :ib.rge briclcbuildin*^ at the snutb-west corner Third and Walnut 
garden on both streets, and after this affair was generally called " Fort Wilson." 



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"Sir,— 

"The Uncertainty of Mons. Gerard's Departure has prevented my giving earlier Notice 
to the Troop. But as to-morrow is fixed for that Purpose, I must request an Officer's Com- 
mand to escort him to Chester. The Officer, by making Inquiry at his House, or of Mr. 
Jay, will learn the Hour, but I believe it will not be an early one. 

" I also enclose you a copy of the Circular Letter, for calling out the Militia upon an im- 
portant Occasion. I shall have the honor of commanding this body of Troops in person, 
and hope the Troop, or at least a Detachment of not less than Twenty, properly officered, 
will once more take the Field against the common Enemy. They will prepare for at least 
two Months Tour. Whatever is wanting from the Q' Master or Comm", within the proper 
Line of Requisition, will be furnished, and every Attention on my Part to make the Service 

easy and honourable. 

I am, Sir, with great Regard, 

Your obed. Hbble serv., 

Jos : Reed, 
" Market Street, Oct. 17, 1779. President." 

[Addressed) on ])ublick Service. 

To Capt. Samuei. Morris, 

Command' of the Troop of Light-Horse. 
Jos: Reed." 
The Circular Letter for calling out the Militia, etc., referred to above, had been issued 
in view of the looked-for arrival of the French fleet under Count d'Estaing, and the inten- 
tion of co-operating with him when he should effect a landing in America, and in General 
Orders, issued October 2 7th, 1 779 : " The President directs the Light Horse to be divided 
in two equal squads, each properly officered, one to march with the division, and the other 
to relieve, as the horses in service may require, at a season when forage is scarce and the 
duty will be severe." The fleet sailed to the southward and the necessity of calling upon 
the Troop having been in consequence avoided, the orders to march were countermanded. 
In the unusually severe winter of 1779-80, the Northern Army was cantoned in New 
Jersey and no further orders appear to have been received by the Troop. In the Laws for 
re-organizing the Militia of Pennsylvania, enacted March 20th, 1780, appears the following 
clause : " Sec. 9. * * That the troop of light horse in the city of Philadelphia 
shall be limited to the number of fifty, exclusive of officers, the vacancies thereof to be filled 
in the manner heretofore practised, and the said troop shall be liable to appear on muster 
days, and to be called into service as other militia." * * * 

In the month of April, 1780, the Troop was again called upon to attend the French 
Ambassador on his visit to the Head-Quarters of the Army, upon the request of the President 
of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, as follows : 



" Dear Sir, — 

Last Year the Gentlemen of the Light Horse were so obliging as to escort the Minister 
of France on his way to camp. The Chev de Luserne, the present Minister, is every 
Way deserving our utmost Respect & Attention, if it is not inconvenient, & an Officer 
& 12 could pay him the like Compliment, it would much oblige. 

Your Obed. & very 

Hbble Serv. 

Jos : Reed. 
P. S. He sets off at 9 o'CIock to-morrow, if the Weather is fair. You will be so good 
as to let me know what Order you give, & I will inform the Minister accordingly. 
( Without Date). 
{Addressed) Capt. Morris, of 

the Light-Horse." 
Although the above called for only an officer and twelve, the whole Troop appears 
to have paid the Minister the compliment of its escort, and he arrived at Head-Quarters, 
Morristown, N. J., on the 9th of April, " in a close carriage, drawn by four horses and 
guarded by forty light dragoons in beautiful uniform." ' 

On Tuesday, the 30th of May, President Reed with the Chevalier de la Luzerne, reviewed 
the militia of Philadelphia, and afterwards President Reed in General Orders " embraced the 
first public opportunity to thank the Gentlemen of the Troop of Light Horse for their nu- 
merous and military appearance." 

In the early part of the following month, Martial Law was declared in Philadelphia and 
the following correspondence and orders to the Troop took place between President Reed 
and Captain Morris: 

" Council Chamber 

June 9, 1780, 
" Sir, The Liformation received from 

Gen'. Washington this Morning makes it probable he will need a Re-enforcement from this 
State & especially of Cavalry in which he is very weak in Consequence of his numerous 
Detachments to Carolina & the two Reg'^ of Dragoons in New England not having left 
their Winter Quarters. You will therefore give Orders to the Troop under your Command 
to hold themselves in Readiness to march at a short Warning well equipp'' & prepared for 
actual Service. I am Sir, 

Your Obed' Hbble Serv. 

Jos : Reed, Presid*. 
{Addressed') on publick Service 

To Captain Samuel Morris, 

Commanding the troop of Light Horse." 

I Rhouo Island Hi.U. Soc. Col. Vol. VI, 



" Philad". June 9th. 1780. 

"Sir,— 
You will please to direct a party of Light horse of at least twenty properly Officered to 
be ready at Six o'Clock to-morrow morning to receive orders that will then be delivered 
thro' you. As the Service is not distant they will not need to be otherwise than well armed 

and mounted. 

I am Sir, Your obedient and very humble 
Servant, 

Jos; Reed, 

President. 
P. S. I shall forward you the farther directions this evening. 
{Addressed ) Samuel Morris, Esq'., 

Captain Command' of the 
Philad. Troop of Light Horse or 

the command*^ Officer in his Absence." 

In Council. 

Philad'., June 9th, 1780. 
<< Sij, . — The very Critical Situation of General Washington's Army, destitute of horses to 
remove his artillery & valuable stores, has made it necessary to send forward, without delay, 
a number of horses, which cannot be obtained otherwise than by taking them from the dis- 
affected, accordingly, orders have issued to seize them ; but as it is probable many will 
attempt'to get them out of Town, we have thought it necessary to direct a patrole of Light 
Horse on each road leading out of Town, vizt : at frankford bridge, on the Germantown 
road, the Wissahiccon road, the Middle & Lower ferrys, on Schuylkill, the Moyamens- 
ing, Passyunk & Gloucester point roads, whose duty it will be to stop all persons lead- 
ing horses, or whom they shall have reason to believe are taking horses out of Town, to 
avoid Seizure, securing the horses & delivering them at the forage yard in Walnut Street 
with the name of the Person to whom they are said to belong. The Patroles may come in by 
one o'clock, by which time it is presumed the business will be finished. 

I am. Sir. 

Your obedient and very 

humble Servant, 

Jos : Reed, 

President." 
P. S. Particular Care will be taken not to interrupt the Market People going or com- 
jng — & in every Respect, secrecy is to be observed previous to entering on Business. 
{Addressed) To Captain Samuel Morris, 

Com", the Trooii of Militia 

Light Horse. 



" Dear Sir. 

I shall give orders for Twenty of the Troop, properly officered, to be ready to-morrow 
morning, agreeable to your orders just Received. Be so good as to order us some ammuni- 
tion, &c., as the Troop are Entirely without. I have not been out of my Chamber these 
Ten days, being Confined with the Gout, otherwise should have Waited on you on the 
Receipt of your orders of this morning, & now take this oppt'y to Inform you that they 
shall also be Complyed with. 

I am. Sir, 

With great Respect, 

Your most obed'. 

H'ble Serv't 
Sam'l Morris, Jun." 
Friday Evening, June 9th, 1780. 

lyAddresscd) His Excellency, Joseph Reed, Esq., 

President of the State of Pennsylvania. 

In this month, " The National Bank for the United States of America," for the purpose 
of supplying provisions to the Army, was established in Philadelphia and the following paper 
was prepared to which ninety-two subscriptions were obtained, amounting to ^300,000. 

" Whereas, in the present situation of public affairs in the United States, the greatest 
and most vigorous exertions are required for the successful management of the just and 
necessary war, in which they are engaged with Great Britain : 

"We, the Subscribers, deeply impressed with the sentiments that on such an occasion 
should govern us, in the prosecution of a war, on the event of which, our own freedom and 
that of our posterity and the freedom and independence of the United States are all in- 
volved, hereby severally pledge our property and credit for the several sums specified and 
mentioned after our names, in order to support the credit of a Bank to be established for 
furnishing a supply of provisions for the armies of the United States : — And we do hereby 
severally promise and engage to execute to the Directors of the said Bank, bonds of the 
form hereunto annexed. 

" Witness our hands this 17th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1780." 
To the above agreement are attached the following names of members of the Troop: 

John Mease, _;^4,ooo, 

Henry Hill, SjOoo, 

John Mitchell, -2,000, 

George Campbell, 2,000, 

Samuel Caldwell, t,ooo, 

Blair McClenachan, 10,000, 

Benjamin Randolph, 2,000, 



Samuel Morris, 


£S'0°°' 


James Mease, 


5,000, 


Thomas Leiper, 


4,000, 


William Hall, 


2,000, 


Samuel Penrose, 


1,000, 


James Budden, 


4,000, 


John Dunlap, 


4,000, 



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John Donnaluson, 


^2,000, 


James Caldwell, 


2,000, 


John M. Nesbit & Co., 




(John M. Nesdit & D. H. Convngh 


vj,.l 5,000, 


William Turnbull, 


1,000, 


Samuel Inglis, 


2,000, 



BuNNER, Murray & Co., 

( Andrew Bunner, John Murray 
& Thomas Leaming, Jr.) 

Fjenjamin Davis, Jr., 
Matthi;\v Irwin, 
John Patton, 
Cadwalader Morris, 



^6,000, 
1,000, 
5,000, 
2,000, 
2,500, 

On the 14th of this month the news of the capitulation of Charleston, S. C, (May 
1 2th), reached Philadelphia, and on the following day the first four classes of the militia were 
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march in view of the threatening movements of 
the enemy in New Jersey ; and on the 21st, while waiting for further orders, " Lady Wash- 
ington came to town from camp met by our Light Horse and escorted by them." » 

Several skirmishes having taken place with the British forces without checking their ad- 
vance, the Troop received the following letter inclosing a letter from Washington to President 
Reed " directing the march of the Light Horse of the city :" = 

" Sir, — 
The inclosed Letter will acquaint you with the Wishes of the Commander-in-Chief. It 
is my Duty to second them & from the Spirit shewn by the Philadelphia Light Horse at a 
like critical Period, I have no Doubt their Zeal will lead to as full & speedy Compliance as 
Circumstances will permit. I am with much Esteem, Sir, 

Your Obed. & very 

Hbble Serv., 
Philad. June 21, . Jos: Reed, 

1^80 President. 

{Addressed) on piiblick service, 

Capt. Samuel Morris, 

Command' of the Troop of 
Jos: Reed. Light Horse." 

The Company left Philadelphia under Lieutenant Budden, June 24th, 1780, not having 
received the following countermanding order, which had been addressed to Captain Morris, 
who was still confined to his chamber by illness : 

" Sir,— 

" One of the Delegates in Congress has just informed me, that there has been a Move- 
ment of the enemy, & some Appearances of their retiring from Eliza town. Under these 
Circumstances, I think it best to postpone the March of the Troop till we have further 



[ Christopher Marshall. 
I Penn'a Archives. 



Advices; but would have every Thing kept in Readiness to go off at a Moment's Warning. 
I am, Sir, 

Your obed. Hbble 

Serv., Jos : Reed, 
Philad*. , June 24th, 1780. President.'' 

( Addressed ) 

Capt. Morris, 

On proceeding as far as Trenton, Lieutenant Budden, commanding the Troop, addressed 
the following letter to General Washington : 

Trenton, June 26th, 17S0. 
"Sir,— 

" I am to inform your Excellency, that the Philadelphia Troop of Light-Horse, consist- 
ing of Thirty Eight, arc thus far advanced, by order of His Excellency President Reed, in 
consequence of the late alarm given by the Enemy's movement into this State. On my way 
to your head-quarters, I shall proceed by way of Morristovvn and Pluckimin ; In the mean- 
time, according to my orders, I have despatched a Sergeant of the Troop, with this previous 
information, to whom you will be pleased to signify your pleasure, by which I shall be en- 
tirely governed. 

And have the honor to be, 

With the greatest respect. 

Your Excellency's obed'. hum. Serv'., 

Jas. Budden, L'." 
His Excellency Gen"-. Washington. 

The British Army having been repulsed at Springfield, New Jersey, Lieutenant Budden 
received in answer to this communication, the following personal letter from General W;ish 
ington, although he had previously directed Colonel Moylan to express his appreciation of the 
prompt action of the Troop : 

Head-Quarters, Ramapaugh, 
28th June, 1780. 
" Sir, — 

"I was favored yesterday evening with your letter of the 26th, advising me of the 
arrival of your troop at Trenton. The spirit and alertness which the Philadelphia Light 
horse have discovered on this Occasion, is such as to deserve my best thanks. I should have 
been happy in their services, had the enemy continued in the Jerseys > but as they have 
evacuated this State, and as the necessity is over which called them out, you will be pleased 
to return to Philadelphia. Lideed I thought to have prevented your advance so far, having 



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requested Col. Moylan, who was going that way, after the enemy had retreated, to counter- 
mand the order for bringing you to camp. 

I am, Sir, your obed'. Serv'., 
L'. BuDDEN. G". Washington." 

[Addressed] James Budden, L'., 

Philadelphia Troop 
Light Horse. 

From the following letter of Colonel Moylan, it would appear that on the day previous to 
the date of Lieutenant Budden's letter, he had written to Captain Morris, (supposing him to 
be in command), countermanding the further advance of the Troop: 

MiDDLEBROOK, 25th June, 1780. 
" Dear Sir, — 

" I have it in Command from the Commander-in-Chief, to thank you and the gentle- 
men of your Corps, for your spirited intentions to join the Army. His Excellency is very 
sensible of the important avocations which at present require the attention of the Citizens of 
Philadelphia, and as the enemy have left this State, he would not wish to deprive that Capi- 
tal of the assistance which so many virtuous Citizens must naturally give to the laudable ex- 
ertions now prosecuting for the public good. 

The General doubts not that when the good of the service may require it, Captain 
Morris and the Gentlemen of the Philadelphia Light Horse will be allways as forward to 
appear in the field as they have hitherto shewn themselves. 

I proposed great pleasure to myself in personally delivering the General's thanks to you, 
but a slight accident which happened to me last night will deprive me of that satisfaction. 
I have the honor to be, with very great esteem for you and the Gentlemen Composing 
vour corps, 

Dear Sir, 

Your most obedient and most Humb. Serv'., 

Stephen Moylan. 
{Addressed") Public Service, 

Captain Morris, or Officer Commanding 

the Philadelphia Volunteer Light Horse, 
on their march — New Jersey." 

This letter did not fall into Captain Morris' hands for some time after it was written, 
and on the day following the date of the letter. Colonel Moylan, learning that the Troop 
were in the neighborhood, sent to Lieutenant Budden the following : — 

" Colonel Moylan presents his Compliments to the officer commanding the Philadelphia 
Light Horse, begs leave to wait on him to-morrow morning with a message from the Com- 
mander-in-Chief The Colonel will meet him at Sommerset about 9 O'Clock. 
Monday, 26th June, lyiSo." 



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Lieutenant Budden met Colonel Moylan as appointed and received at his hands the 
following : 

"Sir, 

I am come by order of the Commander in Chief, to return you and the Gentlemen of 
the Philadelphia Light Horse, thanks for the spirited intentions they have shewn to join the 
Army under his Command. As the enemy have quitted this State with very little Honor to 
themselves, His Excellency would not wish to deprive the Capital of Pensilvania of the 
assistance which so many brave and virtuous Citizens must assuredly give to the Laudable 
exertions now prosecuting for the public benefit. 

The General doubts not but when occasion requires, the Gentlemen of your Hon'ble 
Corps will testify the same readiness to take the field which they have shewn upon this, and 
every other occasion." 

Captain Morris with seven Troopers had at this time joined the main body, but with a 
delicacy which did him honor, he refused to assume command until the business was concluded. 

The names of those engaged in this campaign, were: 



Samuel Morris, Captain, 

John Budden, 2nd Lieut., 

John Lardner, Cornet, 

John Patton, Adjutant, 

Thomas Leiper, ist Sergt., 

William Hall, 2nd " 

Samuel Penrose, Q. M. Sergt., 

William Pollard, ist Cori)., 

James Hunter, 2nd " 

John Donnaldson, 3d ■" 

John Mease, 4th " 

George Campbell, Private, 

Samuel Caldwell, ■ ' 

Blair McClenachan, 

Alexander Nesbitt, " 

Thomas Leaming, Jr., " 

Francis Nichols, " 

Joseph Cowperthwaite, ' ' 

William Turnbull, 

George Henry, " 

James Crawford, " 

David Lenox, 

John Montgomery, ' ' 

Forty-five (45) members and a Trumpeter. 



Thomas C. Morris, Private, 
David H. Conyngham, " 
Thomas Irwin, " 

Robert Roberts, " 

Jonathan Mifflin, " 
Isaac Cox, 
William Allricks, 
Joseph Prowell, " 

Andrew Bunner, " 

John Lyttle, 
Benjamin Davis, Jr., 
Joseph Fisher, " 

William Nichols, " 

Matthew Irwin, " 

James Craig, Jr., 
John Barclay, 
David Duncan, 
John Redman, 
John Murray, 
Jacob Morris, 
Cadwalader Morris, " 
Robert McClenachan," 



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On the ist of January, 1781, the Pennsylvania Line, in winter-quarters at Morristown, 
New Jersey, mutinied, demanding their pay and insisting that their term of service had ex- 
pired. Having killed two officers and several men, who attempted to restrain them, they 
organized themselves under the command of their non-commissioned officers, and leaving 
their encampment with six field pieces, marched to Princeton. 

On the morning of the 3d of January the Troop received an order from the Council 
Chamber "to hold themselves in Readiness for Service at a Moments Warning," and in the 
afternoon a detail of three Troopers was made in accordance with the following request : 

■' Sir, — 

I presume you are informed of a most dangerous and unhappy Meeting in the Pennsyl- 
vania Line, in which two valuable Officers have lost their Lives, and several privates have 
been killed. The last account was that they were in full March for the city, but I hope this 
will not be the Case. It is our Duty to be prepared for all Events, and I have therefore to 
request you would detach Three of the Light-Horse to accompany Gen. St. Clair & the 
Marquis de la Fayette — one of them to return from Trenton, and the others to proceed with 
the Generals, & take the further Orders of Gen. St. Clair, &: in the meantime the whole 
Troop to be in Readiness, as directed to-day. 

I am. Sir, 

Your obed. Hbble 

Serv'. Jos: Reed. 
P. S. Gen'. St. Clair & the Marquis set out at Daybreak to-morrow Morning from 
Connolly's Tavern, Race Street. 

Jan. 3, 1780. {1781) J. Reed 

{Addressed ) To Capt. Samuel Morris, 

Command', of The Troop of Light Horse of Philad'. " 

They arrived at Trenton at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of January, and on 
the following day a Committee of Congress having been appointed to inquire into the 
alleged grievances of the insurgents, it was determined to visit their camp, and the Troop 
received the following order from the Secretary of the Supreme Executive Council of Penn- 
sylvania : 

" Sir, — 

I am directed by His Excellency the President, to request, that you will immediately 
order twenty of the Light Horse to parade at his House at four o'clock this afternoon, ready 
to march immediately into New Jersey — and to order the remainder of the Corps to parade 
and march to-morrow morning. I am with great respect, 

Your most obedient Servant, 
Friday, Jan''. 5, 1781. T''. Matlack, Sec". 

To Captain Samuel Morris, of the Corps of Light Horse." • 



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On arriving at Trenton, a portion of the Troop was detailed to escort General St. Clair, 
the Committee of Congress, the President of Pennsylvania and some members of the Execu- 
tive Council, who desired to hold a conference with the mutineers. The escort was permitted 
to enter the insurgent lines, and proceed to their so-called Head-Quarters, but was not per- 
mitted to remain there, on the ground that the General and the other gentlemen with him, 
needed no escort whilst they remained their guest. The Troopers were conducted to the Pro- 
vost Guard where they awaited orders from General St. Clair, and perfect order prevailed in 
the revolter's camp. President Reed discharged those who professed to have served out their 
terms of enlistment, and promised, on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania, immediate pay 
and clothing to those who would return to duty, and by these means ended the insurrection. 

Three British emissaries, who had entered the insurgents camp with proposals to them to 
desert the American cause, were delivered over to General Wayne. These men were tried by a 
Court Martial, and two of them condemned as spies and sentenced to be hanged. The un- 
pleasant duty of the execution of this sentence devolved upon the Troop. 

While the Troop was on this service, David H. Conyngham, Thomas Irwin and Isaac 
Cox were sent off from Head-Quarters at Princeton by General Wayne to observe the move- 
ments of the British who were then on Staten Island, with the Vulture sloop-of-war, lying off 
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, i 

On the eighth of January, private Benjamin Davis, Jr., left Maidenhead, (now Lawrence- 
ville), N. J., with a letter from General '\\'ashington to the Supreme Executive Council re- 



1 The following account of this detachment and the trial and execution of the spies delivered up by the insurgents, is taken 
from the MSS. of Mr. Conyngham ; * * * * << Upon our leaving our quarters at Mr. Schenck's house, we came 

upon a Picquet Guard of the Board of Sergeants, & were stopped, & taken before Sergeant Lyons & after a short detention, & ex- 
plaining our orders, we were allowed to depart, the two spies. Mason & Ogden, were then in charge of this Guard. We proceeded 
on the Route to Amboy, & on a Post near South or Toms River, we fell in with Major Taylor with a party of Jersey Militia & hav- 
ing been instructed so to do, we told him to take up the Planks and even destroy the Bridge, if the Erittish should march that way, 
& that we would return on the gallop if we met them ; we rode on untiU Night, and lodged in a farm-house off the Road. In the 
Morning proceeded wlih Mr- Ratboon (?) to his house at Perth Amboy, & were conducted privately by him into his House, where we 
had our Breakfasts and fed our Horses, after which, he took us to the roof of his house, whence we saw the Brittish Army, their men 
indulged in playing foot Ball. At last, from a Signal from the Ship, they beat to Arms, & we had to run fast, mount our Horses, & 
ride off; the Ship firing Guns into the Wood that we passed along, & sent their Boats on Shore, but we were soon out of their Way, 
& returned to Princeton, & joined the Army in its March to Trenton, we being kept in the rear by order of the Sergeants. After 
reaching Trenton & relating to Gen'. Wayne, at Bloomsbury, what we had seen & done, we were sent to seek quarters : & after I 
had just lodgings secured, I received an Order to cross the river & join the Guard at Somerset, the house of Mr. Tho' Barclay, 
where the Spies were sent, and Lord Sterling and Gen'l Wayne and Major Fishborn were quartered. After great trouble & difficulty 
from the Ice in the Delaware, I reached it, & soon after we received Orders to bring up the Prisoners. Matters were soon settled 
by the Court Martial, & they were condemned to be hung next Morning before 9 o'Clock, & the execution of the Order was given 
to Major Fishborn. Ogden was much agitated & overcome upon hearing his Sentence, but still expected it would not be effected. 
Mason seemed to feel his situation, but declared to the Writer that if they hung him, he was in fault, but that he would die a true 
and loyal Subject of George the 3d. During the Night, while on Guard, they seriously asked me if they had any hopes ; & I went 
& spoke with Gen' Wayne, who decidedly told me nothing could save them unless we let them escape, which would involve us in 
Trouble. I then procured a Bible from Mr. Barclay, & past the Night in Reading it to them ; Mason was devout, but Ogden was 
in terror & distress. I got them something to eat, & in the Morning Mason slept a little while. After getting the best Breakfast we 
could obtain, & Our Troop having crossed the River and joined us, we were ordered to bring out the Spies, & their sentence being 
again read to them, & their hands secured by a rope, they were led to a Tree nearly back of Colvin's ferry-house, & his Waggon 
and a Negro pressed to hang them; upon their being brought in the waggon to the Tree, a difficulty occurred for a Rope, when 
Lieut. Budden saw a New Rope Collar upon the horse my Servant was on, who had just arrived with cloaths, &c., for me from 
Philad.; with this, the business was soon finished, & before nine, having Orders to return home, we galloped off and left them hang- 
ing; & we reached home that evening, after a severe Week in Cold Weather." 



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questing the sending by him of some specie to Trenton. He returned to Trenton on the 
eleventh with the money,' and joined tlie command which liad that day received the follow- 
ing discharge : 

" Dear Sir, 

I think our Affairs are now in so good a Train that it will not be necessary to detain the 
Gentlemen of the Light Horse from their Business & Families. You will therefore dismiss 
all except five & one of the Officers, with my Sincere Thanks for their Alacrity in turning 
out, & their Service on this Occasion. — Gen'. Potter, Col. Atlee, yourself, & Mr. McClana- 
chan, are appointed to settle the Matter agreeable to the inclosed Proposals & the troops are 
so pleased with the Appointment, that I hope you will add this to your other kind Offices in 
the Business. — And the sooner you can come up the better. I have sent to Philad". to have 
all sort of necessary Supplies sent up, & am with much Esteem, 

Dear Sir, 
Bloomsbury, Yoiir Obed. Hbble Serv. . 

Jan. II, 1781. Jos: Reed. 

(Addressed) Capt. Morris, 

Of the Light Horse. '" 



The following were on duty at this time : 

Samuel Morris, Captain, 

John Budden, 2nd Lieut. , 

John Lardner, Cornet, 

John Patton, Adjutant, 

Thomas Leiper, ist Sergt., 

William Hall, 2nd " 

John Donnaldson, 3d " 

William Pollard, 4th '' 

Samuel Penrose, Q. M. Sergt., 



James Hunter, ist Corp., 
John Mease, 2nd " 

George Campbell, Private, 
Samuel Caldwell, 
Blair McClenachan, " 
Alexander Nesbitt, 
James Caldwell, •' 

Thomas Leaming, Jr., " 
Francis Nichols, " 



I The following extract from the Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council referring to this duty, is of interest : 
' Philadelphia Jan. lo, 1781. The Secretary returned from the Treasurer .ind brought with him two bags, sealed, com 
loncy left at the Treasury by Gen'l Potter ; and the same being opened there appears to be, 

80}^ English guineas . . . . . f?) 35J Z>4°, 17. «■ 

3 French " . ' . 
5j^ Moidors, ....... 45^ u, i6, 3. 

5 Spanish pistoles . 

4 Ducats, 
a Caroline, 

9954 half Johannes'. ....... 298,17,6. 

43j^ dollars, ........ 16, 7, 6. 

2% English shillings , 



aiid the same was delivered. In the presence of Council to Benja 
ered to his Excellency the President, at Trenton, to which plac< 






;£484, 2. 
, one of the corps of light horse, to be by hii 
immediately." 



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John Lyttle, Private, 

Benjamin Davis, Jr. 
Joseph Fisher, 
William Nichols, 
Matthew Irwin, 
Michael M. O'Brien, 
James Craig, Jr., 
John Barclay, 
David Duncan, 
John Redman, 
John Murray, 
George Hughes, 
Jacob Morris, 
Cadwalader Morris, 
Robert McClenachan,' 



Joseph Cowperthwaite, Private, 

William Turnbull, " 

George Henry, " 

James Crawford, " 

David Lenox, " 

John Montgomery, " 

Thomas C. Morris, " 

David H. Conyngha.m, " 

Thom.^s Irwin, " 

Robert Roberts, " 

Jonathan Mifflin, " 

Isaac Cox, " 

William Allricks, ' ' 

Joseph Prowell, " 

Andrew Bunner, " 
Forty-eiglit (48) members. 

Immediately upon the return of tne Troop to Pliiladelpliia a detachment was sent off" to 
Trenton in obedience to the following request of Vice-President Moore of Pennsylvania: 

" Sir, — 

I have Just now Received a letter from the President, wherein he desires that ^5000 
State or hard money, should be forwarded on to Trenton so soon as Possible. I should be 
glad could you make it suit you to set off to-morrow, with some one of your Corps to bear 
you company. If it will not suit )'ou to go yourself, you will please to direct any One or 
Two of your corps to set off Early to-morrow. It will much oblige 

Y'. most ob' Hum. Serv'. . 

Wm. Moore, 
Phila. Jan. 13, 1781. Vice-President." 

Capt. Samuel Morris." 

The operations of the army being confined to the Southern States, there are no records 
of the Troop having been called into service in the spring of this year; in the early summer. 
Lord Cornwallis having re-mounted his cavalry with the fine horses captured on the James 
River, commenced the destruction of the public stores in the State of Virginia, and on the 
T5th of June, by requirement of the Continental Congress, the Troop was ordered by the 
Supreme Executive Council " to hold itself in readiness for field service at short notice,"' 

On the 20th of September, information having been received that General Clinton had 
embarked from New York with five thousand men, and in view of the probable designs of his 



: Penn'a Archh 



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army against the city of Philadelphia, the Troop was again ordered by President Reed "to 
be in readiness to move upon the shortest notice." ' 

It received, (Sept. 28th), orders to march on Sunday the 30th inst., but the Council 
learning that the British fleet had been driven back to New York by the French fleet, coun- 
termanded this order on Sunday evening, and the Troop was so notified, "but e.\pected to 
be ready upon the shortest notice." As far as can be ascertained the services of the Com- 
pany were not required upon either of the above instances. 

On the 19th of October, 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered with his entire army at 
Yorktown, Virginia, and on the third of the following month, the captured British standards, 
( eighteen German and six English regimental colors), arrived in Philadelphia and were given 
in charge to the Troop, which procured a full band of music, and amid the joyful acclama- 
tions of the people, laid the colors at the feet of Congress then in session in the city. A 
few days afterwards, a detachment of the Troop under Lieutenant Dunlap, marched into 
New Jersey having received the following order : 

War Office, Nov. 7th, 1781. 
"Sir,— 

John Moody and Lawrence Marr, being apprehended as spies, you will proceed with 
your party to New Jersey, and endeavor to apprehend their Accomplices. A Waggon was 
to be prepared at the house of Hulings, on the road from Cooper's ferry to Egg harbour, 
where James Moody is to be this Night. You will not cross at Will"". Coopers, but at some 
other Ferry, and as Hulings is acquainted with the Business, and probably Wm. Cooper, 
you will avoid letting them know your Route or Intentions; if you fail in apprehending 
James Moody, you will bring with you Hulings, and take the information of Thomas Addi- 
son, who will give you a Description of Persons and an Account of Circumstances. Confid- 
ing in your doing everything in your Power to detect and apprehend Accomplices, and gain 
Intelligence, we have only to beg you will proceed with all possible despatch. 

We are Sir, 

Your obed. Seivants, 
Mr. Jno. Dunlap, Richard Peters, 

Lieut, of the Phila. Lt. Dragoons. In behalf of the Board of War." 

Upon the return of the party to the city it received the following letter of thanks: 

War Office, Nov. loth, 1781. 
" Sir,— 

You will please to accept yourself, and convey to the Gentlemen of the Troop who 
were with you on the Party sent into New Jersey, the Thanks of the Board for their Atten- 
tion and Endeavors to comply with their Request to you, under which you took every possi- 
ble Step to apprehend the Accomplices in the Design to rob the public Offices. 



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We are extremely happy to hear from your Report, of the Readiness with which you 

were assisted by Col. J. Ellis and Keys, Esq., and you will be pleased to signify to 

those Gentlemen that we are much obliged to them for their prompt and voluntary Exertions. 

We are. Sir, 

Your very obed. servants, 

Richard Peters, 
Mr. John Dunlap, By order of the Board of War. 

Lieut, of the Troop of Philada. Lt. Dragoons."' 

On the 25th of this month, the Troop formed the escort of General Washington on his 
arrival in Philadelphia, where he was received with every manifestation of love and grati- 
tude by the people, and every mark of respect by Congress. The Head-Quarters of the 
Army were established in this city during this winter, and the Commander-in-Chief resided 
here until early in the following spring. 

When, on March 22nd, 1782, he left the city, " His Excellency was escorted by Captain 
Morris' Troop of city horse," it having been ordered to this honorable duty by the fol- 
lowing request of the President of the Supreme Executive Council : 
" Sir, — 

You' ill please to Parade the Troop of Light Horse under your command at General 
Potter's Quarters, in Walnut Street, near Third Street, precisely at Ten O'Clock to-morrow 
Morning, in order to Escort General Washington to Frankford. 
I am, with great Respect, 

Your most Qb'. & Hum. Serv'., 

W". Moore, 
Capt'n. Samuel Morris, President. 

Thursday Evening, Mch 21, 1782." 

The following orders were received by the Troop in the month of May of this year: ^ 

" Sir,— 
You will please to parade the Troop of Light horse under your command, on the com- 
mon opposite Market Street, on Monday next at 9 o'clock, A. M., and received your fur 
ther orders from the commanding officer of the day. 

I am. Sir, 

Your most obedient Servant, 

W". Moore, 
Philada, May 11, 1782. President. 

To Capt. Samuel Morris." 



1 The men, Moody and Marr, were tried and having been proven to be emissaries of the Traitor Arnold, and employed by 
him in the attempted robbery of the office of the Secretary of Congress, were hanged on the 13th of November, 1781. 

2 These papers are in the possession of the Troop, but no records have been discovered of the service for which they were issued. 



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Philadelphia, May 24th, 1782. 
" Sir,— 
In consequence of an order to me from His Excellency the President, and the Hon. 
Council, you are hereby Requested to Notice one-half of the City Philada. Troop of Light 
Horse to hold themselves in Readiness to march at the Shortest Notice. 

I am, with due respect, Sir, 

Your most Humble Serv', 
Sam'. Morris, Jun'., Esq'. W". Henry, L'. 

{Addressed) To Samuel Morris, Jun', Esq'., 

Captain of the City Philadelphia Militia 
Troop of Light Dragoons." 

The Bank which had been established in the year 1780, was this year incorporated as 
The Bank of North America, and a quantity of specie was imported for its use at the port of 
Baltimore. It was thought proper by the Council of Pennsylvania to order a military guard 
to bring this money to the city ; and a detachment of the Troop was chosen for this service, 
which marched on jeceipt of the following order : 

Philadelphia, June 17th, 1782. 
' Sir,— 
You' ill please to Order Ten of your Company of Light Horse to proceed to-Morrow to 
Baltimore, for the Purpose of Escorting the Specie lately Arriv'd there, belonging to the 
Merchants of this City. 

I am, Sir, 

Y'. most hum. Serv". 

W". Moore, 
Captn. Samuel Morris. Pres'. 

Provisional articles of peace were signed and sealed by the commissioners of Great 
Britain and the United States at London, November 30th, 1782, and there are no records of 
the further services of the Troop up to the time of the Peace Proclamation of April i ith, 1 7S3. 

Shortly after the cessation of hostilities, the Troop under command of Captain Morris, 
was ordered out, June 21st, 1783, to aid in suppressing a mutiny in the Pennsylvania Line. 
The mutineers had marched to Philadelphia from I^ancaster, surrounded the Hall of Congress 
and demanded a settlement of their accounts; Congress however adjourned to Princeton 
during the night, and the insurgents in view of the strength displayed by the militia were 
dispersed quietly and without bloodshed. 

After the year 17S3, nothing of interest occurred worthy of note until September 15th, 
1787, when the members of the Company tendered a complimentary dinner to General Wash- 
ington at the City Tavern, Second Street above Walnut Street ; the Troop with its distinguished 
guests, together numbered fifty-five on this interesting occasion. On the 4th of July, 17S8, 



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the grand Federal procession in honor of the adoption of the Constitution of the United 
States took place, in which the Troop under the command of Captain Miles, paraded. 

April 2oth, 1789, His Excellency the President of the United States arrived in the 
city accompanied by the President of the State of Pennsylvania, and they were escorted by 
the two City Troops of horse ; Washington rode at the head of the procession and was 
every where received with the liveliest manifestation of joy; he remained in Philadelphia 
until the following day, and on his departure was attended by the Troop to the city limits. 

On the Eighth of March, 1792, the gentlemen who had been members of the Troop from 
the year 1776 to 1783, resolved to appropriate the pay due them for their services during the 
Revolutionary war, and which amounted to eight thousand dollars, to the establishment of a 
"Foundling Hospital," and Captain Samuel Morris, First Lieutenant John Dimlap, and 
Quarter-Master John Donnaldson, were appointed to hold the money in trust to be applied 
to that purpose. 

May 1 2th, 1794, the following change In uniform was made, a "blue coat faced with red, 
the edging for the commissioned officers silver, and for the non-commissioned officers and 
privates, white cord. The fatigue dress, a blue short jacket, red collar and cuffs, and mixed 
grey overalls. For the horse, a white saddle-cloth with blue edging, and a blue and white 
head piece." 

In the autumn of this year a popular outbreak occurred, known in history as the 
"Whiskey Insurrection :" this was an uprising of certain of the inhabitants of the western 
counties of Pennsylvania, in opposition to the recently enacted Excise Law of the United 
States, imposing duties on domestic distilled liquors. In the vicinity of Pittsburgh, the 
mails were stopped and robbed, buildings destroyed and other outrages committed; the in- 
surrection assumed such proportions that at one time there were between six and seven 
thousand insurgents under arms. 

In this emergency the President of the United States by Proclamation, called upon the 
militia of the several States to quell the rebellion, and at a meeting of the Troop held at 
the City Tavern on the loth of September, it was unanimously resolved to offer its services, 
which were accepted, and on the 19th of September it marched from Philadelphia, joined the 
army under General Washington and proceeded to Pittsburgh. The prompt and decided ac- 
tion of the President, in calling out at once a sufficient force, overawed the seditious : the 
insurrection was quelled and the Troop returned to Philadelphia on the 2Sth of December.' 

I Sergeant D, H, Conyngham mentions in his MSS. as an incident of this campaign: * * * "General 

Washington, Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States, riding alongside of me, expressed warmly his respect for the 
First Troop ; that he could scarcely convey how much he had always felt himself indebted to the Troop, for their services during 
the Revolutionary War, and also their services on the present expedition ; that such gentlemen turning out, was the means of in- 
ducing the other troops to march more cheerfully." 

And Gov. William Findlay, in his " History of the Insurrection," etc.,- mentions in his account of the services of the 
Troop : " Capt. Dunlap and his party, while they behaved with the greatest dexterity in taking the prisoners, treated them with 
as much politeness and attention as their situation would admit of, and engaged their gratitude by accompanying unavoidable 
severity with humanity." 




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The members who served in this campaign were ; 



John Dunlap, Captain, 

David Lenox, ist Lieut, {to Oct. 22), 

Thomas Leiper, 2d Lieut, [to Oct. 10), 

William Hall, 2d " \fnwiOvt. 10), 

William Hall, Cornet {to Oct. 10), 

John Lardner, " (y)w« Oct. lo), 

Jacob Cox, Adjutant, 

James S. Ewino, Surgeon, 

John Donnaldson, Q. Master, 

Jonathan Robeson, Q. M. Sergt. 

John Lardner, Sergeant {to Oct. 10 1, 

Samuel Howell, Jr., " 

Robert Smith, " 

David H. Convngham, " 

John Redman, Cor])oral, 

Jonathan Williams, " 

Joseph B. McKean, " 

John Meleeck, " 

Robert Hiltzheimer, " 

John Mease, Private, 

Francis Nichols, " 

Patrick Moore, " 

Francis Johnston, " 

William Lardner, •' 

John Caldwell, " 

Anthony Benezet, " 

Benjamin Morgan, " 

Francis West, " 



Andrew Pettit, Private, 

Robert S. Bickley, " 

Robert Rainey, " 

Joseph Marsh, " 

David C. Claypoole, " 

Samuel AVheeler, " 

Charles Ross, " 

John Vaughan, " 

Daniel Williams, " 

George McCall, " 

Robert Andrews, " 

William Forrest, " 

Michael Keppele, " 

Henry Wikokf, " 

Willl\m Miller, Jr., " 

Robert C. Latimer, " 

R1CH.A.RD Willing, " 

William Wilcocks, " 

William S. Budden, " 

William W. Burrows, " 

Benjamin Ringold, " 

Meredith Clymer, " 

Henry Nixon, " 

Daniel S. Delany, " 

Robert Lewis, " 

William Phillips, " 

Joseph Simmons, " 

Benjamin F. West, " 



Wm. Miller, Sr., " 

Fifty-five in number, and Michael Waltman and George Spinnenberger, Trumpeters. 

The following letter was received by the Troop on its homeward march : 

"To Col. William McPherson, commanding the Infantry, and Captain John Dunlap, com- 
manding the Cavalry of the Advanced Corps of the Right Wing of the Militia army. 

" Gentlemen, — 

In the hurry of making the arrangements at Pittsburgh for the march of the advanced 

corps of the right wing, it became impractical to communicate to you the general orders of 

the i8th inst. A copy of them is now enclosed, and you will, of course, acquaint your re- 



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spective Commands with the sentiments of uur worthy Commander-in-Chief respecting their 
and their fellow-soldiers' patriotic Conduct in supporting the Laws and the Constitution, 
and the happiness of their Country. Whilst you are discharging this duty, I request you 
will likewise express to them my high satisfaction with their soldier-like deportment during 
the whole time I had the honour to command them. While I live, I shall recollect with 
pleasure the fortitude and patience with which they endured the severe toils and hardships 
of the Campaign, and the promptitude with Which they obeyed every order. To my latest 
breath, I shall keep in my mind, with the liveliest sensibility, the remembrance of their 
politeness and attention to me on every occasion. 
1 am, gentlemen. 

With sentiments of pure regard. 

Your most obedient & very humble Servant, 
Bedford, Nov. 23d, 1794. Frederick Frelinghuvsen." 

Shortly afterwards the Troop presented to Miss Robeson, sister of one of its members, 
a piece of silver as a return for the attention which iis members had received at the Robeson 
mansion, on the Manatawny (now Ridge) Road, near Wissahickon creek." 

On Thursday, February iSth, 1796, the Troop gave a dinner at Richardet's Tavern, 
No. 25 North Tenth Street, to Major General Wayne and his suite. All the officers of the 
Legion of the United States, then in the city, were guests on this pleasing occasion, as were 
also General White of New Jersey, and the officers of the Second and Third Troops of 
Philadelphia Cavalry. 

On Wednesday, May 9th, 1798, the Troop was on duty during the night, and having 
paraded through the city, detachments were posted as guards at several points, for the pur- 
pose of suppressing an apprehended disturbance and the sacking of the U. S. Military Store- 
houses and the Mint. 

On the 19th of June, General John Marshall, Secretary of War to Washington, and 
afterwards Chief Justice of the United States, returning from France, where he had been 
sent by President Adams, as Envoy from the United States in conjunction with Charles 
Cotesworth Pinckney and Eldridge Gerry, was met upon his arrival at Frankford, by the three 
troops of City Cavalry and escorted " amid the joyful peals of Christ Church bells and the 
repeated huzzas of the citizens," to his quarters at the City Tavern, and at a meeting held 

I This silvc, bears the following inscription. The n.-imc being misspelled and should read Robeson in both instances : 
" As a Tribute of Thanhs, 
and a Testimonial of Esteem, 
This Piece of Plate is presented to 
Miss Maky Roi^insox, 
by the First Troop of Philadelphia Cavalrj-, 
Commanded by John Dunlap, Esqr., who together with their Brethren of the other City Troops when marching to the 
Westward in the Vear 1754, were hospitably entertained at the Falls of Schuylkill, 
by Mr. Peter Robinson's Family." 



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June 26th, 179S, Captain Dunlap read the following letter of thanks from the Secretary of 
State in acknowledgment of the compliment: 

Philadelphia, June 20th, 1798. 
"Dr. Sir,— 

General Marshall, when alighting last evening at the City Tavern, wished to have ex- 
pressed his thanks to the gentlemen of the Troop of Horse, who were so obliging as to 
attend him into town ; but the noise and the crowds of people rendered it impossible. I 
assured him that I would make known his sensibility at this mark of the polite, friendly, and 
respectful attention of the gentlemen, whose liberality would be satisfied with his reason for 
not attempting personally to offer them his acknowledgments, 
this I beg leave to do thro. you. 

I am, very respectfully. Sir, 

Your Ob', servant, 
Capt. John Dunlap. Timothy Pickering." 

In the By-Laws of the Troop adopted June 26th, 1798, the uniform of that time is 
particularly described as follows : 

"Sec. 10. The Uniform shall be a Horseman's Cap of black leather, the front, top 
and back covered with bear skin, the sides with fawn skin — a black Cockade with a silver 
button and loop, and a white hair plume — a dark blue short Coat, scarlet facings, collar and 
cuffs, lined and edged with white — white Waistcoat and breeches with white metal buttons — 
black Stock — black topped boots, — Spurs and pistols — Holsters, with bearskin caps — a 
Horseman's sword, silver or steel mounted with a white belt. — A Saddle without a saddle- _ 
cloth. Girths blue and white — scarlet housings trimmed with white — a crupper — a black 
leather breast-plate — a plated bit and bridoon with black leather reins — the rosette and front 
of the bridle to be blue and white, a black leather Halter — a cartouch box of black leather 
to contain nine Cartridges." 

In the summer of this year, some thirteen members of the Troop made application to 
the Company to be permitted to raise a Corps of Horse to be attached to the " McPherson 
Blues" This permission was granted with " the full approbation of the Troop, and as soon 
as the service in which they engage expires, such members shall be received into the Troop 
on the first vacancies without being balloted for." This company was organized under the 
name of "The Volunteer Troop of Light Dragoons," with the following Troopers as officers : 
Robert Wharton, Captain; Jonathan Robeson, First Lieutenant; Jonathan Williams, Second 
Lieutenant, and Henry Nixon, Cornet. The services of the Dragoons were required on 
several occasions on escort duty in charge of prisoners captured on French privateers and in 
assisting the "McPherson Blues" in duties of a like nature. Upon the disbanding of this 
Company, its members who had been Troopers, were re-admitted to membership, and several 
others of the Dragoons were elected members of the Troop. 



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In consequence of the yellow fever prevailing in the city to an alarming extent, the 
directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania deemed it expedient to remove the deposits and effects 
belonging to the bank from the city. Accordingly a detachment of the Troop, in Septem- 
ber, 1798, escorted the valuables to Germantown, and deposited them in the school house 
on School House Lane.' Towards the close of the year 1 798, another disturbance developed 
itself in Pennsylvania, known as " Fries' Insurrection," or the " Hot Water War." It broke 
out in the County of Northampton, and spread through Berks and Montgomery Counties 
with rapidity ; originating in an attempt of the Federal Government to collect a direct tax 
upon houses. Great difficulties attended the collection of this tax by the assessors, and the 
disorders continuing during the winter, and until spring, it became expedient to call the 
militia into the service of the United States to quell the rebellion. The following letter 
accompanying an order to Ca]5tain Dunlap, was received : 

".Philadelphia, March 20th, 1799. 
Sir,— 

I transmit to you a General Order of this day, which directs certain Corps of Cavalry 
to hold themselves in readiness to march on or before the 28th inst., in which you will 
observe that your Troop is comprehended. You will therefore make report to me, as soon 
as your Troop shall be ready to march. 

I am, Sir, with great respect. 

Your most obedient servant, 

Peter Bavnton", 
Captain Dunlap. Adj'. Gen', of the Militia of Pennsylvania." 

To which Captain Dunlap made the following reply: 

"Wednesday evening, March 20th, 1799. 
Sir,— 

About an hour ago I rec'd through you the General Orders of the Commander-in-Chief, 
dated this day, with a letter directing me to report when the First Troop of Philadelphia 
Cavalry will be ready to march. With pleasure I tell you, that when the Laws and Govern- 
ment of this happy country require defence, the First Troop of Philadelphia Cavalry wants 
but one hour's notice to march 

I have the honor to be with esteem. 

Your obedient, humble servant, 

John Dunlap. 
Commander of the first Troop Philadelphia Caval'". 
Peter Baynton, Esq., Adj. -Gen'. 

of the Militia of the State of Pennsylvania. 
N. B. The three troops City Cavalry will parade at 2 o'clock to-morrow." 

ised for the purposes for which it was originally erected 



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The Troop was the next day mustered into the service of the United States, but did not 
receive orders to inarch until April 4th. Proceeding to AUentown, and arriving there on the 
twelfth, it was ordered into camp, where it remained until the necessity of the occasion no 
longer required its services, and returning to Philadelphia was mustered out on the twenty- 
fifth. The following members served on this expedition : 



John Dunlap, Captain, 
Robert Smith, Lieut., 
Jacob Coxe, " 

Charles Ross, Cornet, 
John Donnaldson, Q. Master, 
James S. Ewing, Surgeon, 
Thomas AV. Hiltzheimer, Sergeant, 
Robert Erwin, " 

Benjamin Morgan, " 

Robert Rainev, Corporal, 

John Frazier, " 

Benjamin F. West, " 

Israel W. Morris, ' ' 

Francis West, Private, 

Andrew Pettit, " 

Pearson Hunt, " 

David C. Claypoole, " 

William Guier, " 

Henry Wikoff, " 

Abraham Bickley, " 

Peter Blight, " 

Samuel Hazlehurst, " 

Jonathan Smith, Jr., " 

Edward Shoemaker, " 



Edward Tilghjian, Jr., Private, 
George Fox, 
James Gibson, 
Thomas Mifflin, Jr., 

Enoch Wheeler, " 

Joseph Reed, " 

Tench Francis, Jr., " 

John C. Browne, " 

John Leamy, " 

James Hunter, Jr., " 

Richard Rush, " 

Jasper Moylan, " 

Abel Humphreys, " 

William Young, " 

Robert E. Griffith, " 

Joseph Pemberton, " 

William Jones, " 

Joshua Fisher, " 

Jacob Sperry, " 

Richard H. Wilcocks, '' 

Thomas R. Penrose, " 

William North, " 

Jonathan Jones. " 



Forty-seven (47) members — Michael Waltman and George Spinnenberger, Trumpeters. 

On the 26th of December, 1799, tlie Troop paraded, dismounted, with the Washington 
funeral pageant, and was assigned an honorable position in the line. All the military and 
civic organizations of the city and vicinity took part in the solemn ceremony, which was 
closed with a burial service at Zion Church, Fourth and Cherry Streets. 

On July 29th, 1803, the Troop suffered a severe loss in the resignations of Captain John 
Dunlap and Lieutenants William Hall and Robert Smith. At a meeting held the same day, 
suitable resolutions of regret were passed, and upon being forwarded to the above officers, 
the following reply was received : 



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To the Members of the First City Troop of Horse. 
" Gentlemen, — 

Your Resolution of the 27th July last, expressive of Regret on the resignation of our 
Commissions and Thanks for our Conduct while Officers of the Corps, have been politely 
communicated to us by James Gibson, Esq'., Secretary to the Troop. In Return, be pleased 
to accept our Sincere & cordial Thanks for your Zeal and Alacrity in the Service of your 
Country whenever called on, and your Gentlemanly and friendly behaviour to us on all 
Occasions. The Approbation of a Corps so ancient and honourable as the First City Troop, 
whose existence commenced with the Revolution which ranked America among the Nations 
of the Earth, and whose energies have been exerted to Establish the Freedom and happi- 
ness of their fellow-citizens, is highly flattering, and will ever be held in grateful Remem- 
brance by us. With sincere and fervent wishes for the honour of the Troop, and for the 
happiness and prosperity of the Individuals composing it, 

We are, Gentlemen, with great Regard and Esteem, 

Your Friends and humb. Servts., 

John Dunlap, 

W.M. H.-iLL, 

Philadelphia, November 17th, 1803. Robert Smith. " 

The Washington Letter of Discharge of 1777, addressed to "The Philadelphia Troop of 
Light Horse under the command of Captain Morris," was in the possession of the Troop at 
this time, and Captain Dunlap upon his resignation, solicitous for its safe keeping, caused 
to be made a silver box, ornamented with a portrait of Washington, in a recess in the back 
of which he inserted the letter. This box or plate he presented to Captain Morris, accom- 
panied with the following letter which more particularly describes it. 

"D'. Sir,— 

I have caused a Silver Plate ornamented with Gold, to be prepared of such dimensions 
as to admit in the centre thereof a most exact likeness of the late illustrious Washington 
who was the Prop and Glory of this Western World. — The magnanimous supporter and de- 
fender of rational Liberty — In whom was combined the Talents of the Warriour — the 
Philosopher and the Legislator. 

The words of the Discharge given by that disinterested Hero to you after the hazardous 
and ever memorable campaign of the years 1776 and 1777, with the names of the Gentle- 
men under your mild but firm command, I have also caused to be elegantly engrav'd on 
the Plate. A Recess is formed on the back of the Plate to admit and preserve the original 
which should be, as far as in our Power protected from accident or injury. 

My veneration for the memory of our beloved departed chief, and regard for you my 



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much valued Friend, induced me to have this Plate — Portrait and Discharge executed in the 
manner you will herewith find them 

as a testimony of merited esteem, accept 
this Plate, &c., from your affectionate 

John Dunlap." 
Samuel Morris, Esq'. 
(^Endorsed') 

" Copy delivered to Capt. Morris, Sept'. 2''., 1803. J. D." 

The " Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital" had been authorized by an Act of the 
Legislature in 1793, to establish a Lying-in and Foundling Hospital, and in 1S07, the trustees 
appointed by the Troop in 1792, (Captain Samuel Morris, Lieutenant John Uunlap and 
Quarter-Master John Donnaldson), offered to the managers of the hospital the sum they held, 
to be applied to that part of the establishment which related to foundlings. The managers 
declined receiving the donation with this restriction, and set forth their reasons for so doing 
in a very lengthy paper, showing that experience had proved that hospitals for foundlings 
were not only not attended with benevolent results, but were productive of serious evil to 
society; a committee consisting of Zaccheus Collins, Wm. Poyntell and Edward Pening- 
ton, was appointed to confer further with the trustees, which resulted in their transferring 
to the Contributors of the Pennsylvania Hospital, sixteen shares of the capital stock of the 
Bank of Pennsylvania, in which the pay had been invested, to be applied in such propor- 
tions as the managers should deem -most expedient, to the Lying-in and Foundling 
Hospital ; they entering into obligations, that the fund so given should be applied to the pur- 
pose intended, and also that it should be known and distinguished in the books and acts of 
the managers and otherwise, as "The Fund bestowed by the Fh^st Troop Philadelphia 
City Cavalry to the Lying-in and Foundling Hospital." Duplicate indentures were 
executed, as well as a bond of indemnity to the trustees, one remaining with the managers 
of the Hospital, the other with the trustees, and the survivor of them and their heirs; the 
lying-in department of the hospital then went into operation 'for the first time, and all ex- 
penses attending it were charged on the books of the institution to the " Cavalry Fund."' 

At a meeting held October 17th, 1808, Captain Wharton stated that the Militia Law 
then in existence obliged the Troop to attach itself to some one of the regiments then form- 
ing, and it being left to the officers to determine, they chose the 50th Regiment, commanded 
by Colonel George W. Bartram. 

I Copies of the indentures are to be found upon the Minutes of the Hospital for the ycnr 1S07, and final statements of the 
account on the Minutes of 1853 The ward established by this fund was opened in 18^7 and closed in 1S51 to permit some altera- 
tions to be made in the buildings ; in 1853 it w.os finally determined by the Managers not to re-open the ward for lying-in patients. 
This conclusion was reached after a full investigation of the reports of the worliing of similarly situated wards elsewhere, which 
showed that for their successful management such wards should not be located in general hospitals. Upon closing the ac 
this time, the " Cavalry Fund " was found to be indebted to the Hospital some 520,000, and the stock, appraised at i 
(^,000), was considered a general asset and continued to be a paying investment until the failure of the Bank in 1857. 



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At a meeting held September 6th, 1809, the following change was made in the uniform 
of the Troop : — " viz : instead of a Coatee, a round Jacket of blue Cloth with a small skirt, 
ornamented with silver Cord. The facings, cuffs & collar to be of Scarlet Cloth or Cassi- 
mere, each facing at the bottom to be about 4 inches broad & increase gradually to the 
Chest. Two rows of buttons on the facing, twelve on each side, with silver Cord to meet in 
the middle of the breast, & to reach from button to button across the Chest, the Jacket to 
reach the Hip bones. Two buttons with silver Cord on each side the collar & three buttons 
with silver Cord on each sleeve." 

At a meeting held December i6th, 1S09, it was " Reso/vcJ, That the Troop agree to 
join the other Corps of Cavalry of the City & County of Philadelphia in an application to 
the Legislature, for an Act, authorizing the formation of a Regiment of Cavalry." This 
application was made and having obtained the necessary authority, the First, Second, Third, 
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Troops of Horse united and formed a Regiment of Cavalry, and on 
June 14th, 1810, elected the following officers: Robert Wharton, Colonel ; John M. Price, 
Lieutenant-Colonel; John Smith (marshal), First Major; Caleb Hughes, Second Major. 

Robert Wharton being chosen Brigadier-General in 181 1 — John Smith (marshal) was 
elected Colonel of the Regiment, Thomas Cadwalader, Lieutenant-Colonel ; Caleb Hughes, 
First Major; S. Meeker, Second Major; Wm. T. Smith, Adjutant. 

At a meeting held September 3d, 181 1, it was proposed by Lieutenant Crawford, com- 
manding, and unanimously agreed to, that the Troop meet in uniform to escort Major-General 
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to Chester upon his departure from the city, in pursuance of 
which resolution the following correspondence took place : 

" Sir, — 

The first and second Troops of light horse of the city of Philad"., desirous of evincing 
their respect for one who has so eminently distinguished himself in the service of his coun- 
try, have unanimously resolved to escort you on your departure from this city. We sincerely 
hope, sir, that you will not disappoint our wishes, & beg you to inform us of the manner & 
time of your departure from this city. With the most profound veneration, we remain your 
obd' Servt% 

Thomas Cadwalader, 

Capt. 2d Troop. 
Philad'. 3"'. Sept' , 181 1, James Crawford, 

Major-Gen'. Lt. Command^ ist Troop. 

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney." 

" Gentn, — 

I have this evening received, by your letter of this day's date, the very polite offer of 
the first and second troop of the Philadelphia Light Horse, to escort me on my departure 



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from this city. Untoward circumstances attending the sailing of vessels to Carolina, have 
rendered the precise time of my departure uncertain, & I must decline the honour intended 
me. Be so good as to present this excuse to the corps you command, with my grateful 
thanks for this mark of esteem, & my most ardent wish, that, if hostile aggression should 
bring them into the field of honourable conflict, the vigilant & undaunted spirit of Washing- 
ton may watch over & animate them to such deeds of heroic Valour as their country will ap- 
prove & applaud. With my best acknowledgments for the very polite manner in which you 
have communicated the resolutions of your respective corps, 
I have the honour to be 

Your most obd' & humble serv', 
Capt. Cadwalader Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. 

and 
L'. Crawford. Philad\ Sept'. 5th, 1811." 

At a meeting held May 29th, 1812, the commissioned officers were, by a vote of the 
Troop, authorized, in conjunction with the board of officers of the Regiment, to volunteer 
the service of the Troop to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, in the contemplated 
war with Great Britain. 

The differences which had so long existed between the United States and Great Britam 
finally resulted in a declaration of war by Congress on the i8th of June, 181 2; but no 
military operations of importance took place in the vicinity of Philadelphia until the year 
1814, except the fitting out of some gun boats and privateers, and the repairing of the 
ordinance at Fort Mifflin. 

On the 8th of July, 181 2, the Troop with its Honorary members, assembled and attended 
the funeral of Captain Samuel Morris from his late dwelling house. Second Street near Walnut, 
opposite the Bank of Pennsylvania,' agreeably to orders, without uniform and with crape 
above the left elbow. At a meeting of the Troop held immediately after the funeral it was 
unanimously Resolved " That in consequence of the eminent services of its late commander 
during the Revolutionary war, and the high respect the Troop entertain for his memory, the 
members thereof will wear crape on the left arm above the elbow during thirty days." 

In the years 181 2 and 1813, the Regiment of Cavalry, with which the Troop was con- 
nected, performed escort duty to Captain Jones, after his conquest of the " Frolic ;" to Com- 
modore Decatur, after his conquest of the " Macedonian ; " and to Captain Bainbridge, after 
his conquest of the "Java;" in the public receptions given them by the city authorities. 

Some apprehension having been felt that the State Powder Magazine was in possible 
danger of injury from secret friends of the enemy, the Troop was placed on duty there from 
the 29th of March to the 3d of April, 1813. 

1 The United States Appraisers' Stores are built upon the site formerly occupied by this Bank. 



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In April of the following year several British officers who were confined as hostages in 
the ■' New Jail," having made their escape, the Troop received orders to pursue them and 
for this purpose was divided into three detachments, one under Captain Ross taking the 
Chester road, the second under Lieutenant Cuthbert, the Norristown road, and the third 
under Cornet Lewis, the Lancaster Turnpike, with orders to rendezvous at Germantown — 
the tour of duty lasted two days. 

The first half of the year 1814 was made memorable principally by the activity dis- 
played throughout the country in the formation of volunteer corps, and the recruiting of 
men for the regular army. Nearly all who thus enrolled themselves were ignorant of the 
duties of the soldier, not only in the ordinary evolutions of the line, but in the simplest 
field manoeuvres. On the 26th of August, while in this defenceless and unprepared condi- 
tion, yet not imagining that danger was near, the inhabitants of Philadelphia were startled 
by the news of the disastrous Battle of Bladensburgh, and the capture of the City of Wash- 
ington by General Ross, both of which events occurred on the twenty-fourth. Great ex- 
cesses were committed by the British forces at this time ; the Capitol and the President's 
house being consumed by a general conflagration, the troops not even sparing the national 
library. Li the natural anxiety occasioned by these movements of the enemy, a public meeting 
of the citizens was at once called, and a committee of defence appointed. At this juncture 
General Bloomfield resolved upon organizing a camp and accepting the services of such volun- 
teer corps as were prepared for duty, and on the following day, August 27th, the Troop ten- 
dered its services, and commanded by Captain Ross, marched for Mount Bull, a height on the 
Chesapeake, five miles from Turkey Point, and thirteen miles from Elkton, Maryland, com- 
manding an extensive view of the bay, where it established its permanent Head-Quarters, and 
from which a line of videttes extending to the city, and communicating daily with the camp 
at Kennett's Square, Pa., was formed. 

On the morning of November the 30th, the military broke camp and marched into Wil- 
mington, where they remained until the next day, when they again took up the line of 
march, and on Friday, the 2d of December, returned to Philadelphia. The service upon 
which the Troop was engaged was of too important a nature to admit of its returning with 
the other companies, and it was accordingly detained on duty a short time longer, and did 
not reach the city until the 12th of December, when, after marching through the prin- 
cipal streets, it saluted Generals Gaines and Cadwalader at their respective Head-Quarters. 
The following orders were issued and the accompanying correspondence took place during 
this campaign. 

Gener.\l Orders. 
Fourth Military District, Philadelphia, 27th August, 1S14. 
" Captain Ross, vifith thirty men of his Troop of Cavalry, are called into service, to act 
as videttes between this city and the Delaware and the Chesapeake. The signal for alarm 



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will be six guns fired in quick succession at Fort Mifflin and at the Arsenal, and by the 
drums of the city beating to arms ; and immediately thereupon, the militia will parade com- 
pletely equipped for the field, right upon Chestnut, extending southwardly on Broad Street. 
The officers of the topographical department and corps of engineers will report themselves 
on Monday next to General Jonathan Williams, who is pleased to undertake the superin- 
tendance of works in and near the city for its defence. 

Jos. Bloomfield, 
Brig.-Gen. Commanding." 

To Captain Charles Ross, commanding Videttes. 

Camp Bloomfield, 14th September, 1S14, Rennet's Square. 
"Sir,— 

I have this day assumed the command of this encampment and of the detachment in 
advance — you will direct the videttes to report to me, in passing this to Philadelphia. When 
you wish that your troop be returned from its present duty, I will order the 2d troop to oc- 
cupy your post. 

I have the honor to be, yours, &c., 

Thomas Cadwalader, 
Brig. Gen. ist Brig, ist Division P. M. commanding 
volunteers and dft. on service of U. S. " 

Philadelphia, 14th September, 1814. 
"Captain Ross : 

Sir, — -We had no stage la.st night, and no mail to-day from Baltimore. You will please 
therefore, immediately on the receipt of this, to establish a line of videttes from the nearest 
point on the present line to some point as near as practicable to Baltimore, and send us in- 
telligence as speedily as possible of whatever may occur. If, at the extremity, or at any 
other part of it, you should think it best to employ persons not of the cavalry, or without 
uniform, you are authorized to do so, and the Committee will pay the expense. Employ 
any number of expresses you may think necessary. 

Your most obedient servant, 

Charles Biddle, 
Chairman of the Committee of Defence." 

General Orders. 
Head-Quarters, 4th Military District, Phila. Oct. 3d, 181 4. 
"Captain Ross will call out as many of the First City Troop as will be sufficient to dis- 
charge the duties of videttes, conformably to the order of the 27th August last. 

Jos. Bloomfield, 
Brig.-Gen. Commanding." 



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General Orders. 

Head-Quarters, Phila. 7th Oct. 1814. 
"Major-General Gaines takes command of the 4th military district. The troops will 
remain in the positions they now occupy, until circumstances shall require a change. The 
Major-General feels much satisfaction in announcing to the army he has the honor to com- 
mand, that he has received from the Committee of Defence representing the citizens of 
Philadelphia, the most cordial assurances of co-operation and support in whatever measures 
may be necessary for the destruction of the enemy, should his temerity drive him hither : 
and it is confidently expected that every officer and every man will hold himself ready to 
meet and resolved to beat the invading foe. 

Edmund P. Gaines, 
By the General, Major-General." 

J. N. Barker, Asst. Adj. -Gen. 

Resolutions of the Committee of Defence. Oct. loth, 1814. 

"The committee appointed to confer with the commanding general of this district upon 
the videttes, report: That they have had a satisfactory interview with General Gaines, who 
stated to your committee, that he should consider the videttes in the service of the United 
States from the time of their first being called out, and that he wished the committee to 
make any necessary advances and give such directions as shall appear proper. The General 
also stated, that instead of calling home the videttes, he wished a line extended from this city 
to Eo-g-Harbor, and that the expense would be borne by the United States, and the proper 
accountant would settle the accounts as soon as he could make the necessary arrangements. 

Resohed, that the chairman be requested to inform Captain Ross of the substance of 
this report, and that he will consider himself and troop under the orders of General Gaines, 
and in the service of the United States. 

Resolved, That the sum of 51000 be advanced to Thomas F. Learning for the expense 
of the videttes under Captain Ross, to be settled and accounted for hereafter." 

District General Orders. 

Adjt.-General's Office, Phila. i6th Oct. 1S14. 
"Captain Ross, commanding a detachment of the First City Troop of Cavalry in the 
service of the United States, will direct his videttes to report on their arrival at Philadelphia 
at the Adjutant-General's office. 

By order of Major-General Gaines, 

J. N. Barker, 

Asst. Adj. -Gen." 



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General Orders. 
Head-Quarters, 4th Military District, Phila. 23d Nov. 1814. 
To Captain Ross, Vol. Dragoons, commanding Videttes' Post. 
"Sir,— 
You will be pleased to quarter your troop at such place in the vicinity of the position 
which it at present occupies, as you may find most eligible. The probability of your being 
soon discharged renders it inexpedient to build barracks, or make any permanent establish- 
ment for your troop. You are at liberty to draw upon the Quarter-Master-General, Col. 
Linnard, of this city, at sight, for $2000, to meet the contingent expenses of the videttes 
and expresses under your command. 

I have the honor to be 

Your obedient servant, 

Edmund P. Gaines 

Major-General commanding. ' ' 

Ad JT. -General's Office, 4th Mil. Dis. Phila. Dec. 5th, 1814. 
To Captain Ross, commanding Dragoon Videttes. 
" Sir, — 
You will, on the receipt hereof, collect the Troop under your command, and repair 
therewith to this city, excepting such small detachments thereof as may be necessary to keep 
up the communication between this and Newcastle, at which latter place it will be necessary 
to have an intelligent non-commissioned officer. 

By order of Major-General Gaines. 

Charles J. Nourse, 

Asst. Adjt.- Gen. U. S. .'Vrmy." 

General Orders. 
Adjt. -General's Office, 4th Mil. Dis. Phila. Dec. nth, 1814. 
"The troop of cavalry under the command of Captain Ross will be discharged on to- 
morrow, the 1 2th inst. The commanding General avails himself of this opportunity of 
expressing his high sense of the steadiness and good conduct of Captain Ross and the officers 
and men of his corps while under his command. 

By order of Major-General Gaines, commanding. 

Charles J. Nourse, 
Asst. Adjt. -Gen. U. S. Army." 

The following members served in this campaign : 

Charles Ross, Captain, John R. C. Smith, ist Sergt., 

James L. Cuthburt, 2nd Lieut., Anthony Stocker, 2nd " 

Robert M. Lewis, Cornet, Thomas F. Leaming, 3d " 



Job Bacon, 4th Sergt. 
Matthew McConnell, Jr., ist Corp., 
Henry Harrison, 2nd " 

Jehu R. Tunis, 3d " 

John B. Simmons, 4th " 

John Donnaldson, Jr., Q'. M., 
James M. Bolton, Private, 

Clement Lee Bready, " 
William J. Browne, 

John Y: Bryant, " 

William Craig, " 

Augustus Cushing, " 

Edward D.wies, " 
Edward M. Donnaldson, " 

John Elfreth, " 

William W. Fisher, " 

Charles P. Fox, " 

Joseph Gratz, " 

Nathan Hall, " 

Joshua Harlan, Jr., '' 

William H. Hart, •' 

George Hugg, " 

John Inskeep, " 

Samuel Jackson, ' ' 

Samuel H. Jacobs, " 

Abraham Kintzing, " 

Frederick V. Kjrug, " 

Lynford Lardner, •' 

William Lehman, " 

Wharton Lewis, " 



Hugh P. Lloyd, Private, 

Matthew Matthews, " 

George McCallmont, " 

John McCrea, " 

Henry McMurtrie, " 

John W. Morrell, " 

Henry Nixon, " 

Charles Norris, " 

Charles Pettit, " 

Thomas Say, " 

William T. Simmons, " 

Lawrence Sink, " 
Francis Gurney Smith, " 

John C. Smith, " 

Wm. Harrison Smith, " 

George T. Stuckert, " 

Thomas H. Taylor, " 

Moses Thomas, " 

Henry Toland, " 

Edward Twells, " 

Lewis C. Vanuxem, " 

John R. Warder, " 

John Warner, " 

Robert Wh.arton, " 

William Whelen, " 

Francis Worley, " 

Henry Witmer, " 

Henry Wikoff, " 

George Willing, " 

William S. Willing. " 



Sixty-six (66) members and Jolin Lambacli, Trumpeter. Cyrus Cummings, Ezekiel 
Harman and Robert Bristol, servants.' 

On the 22nd of February, 1816, the Troop met, out of uniform, at the Washington 
Hall and marched in procession with the Washington Benevolent Society to the Olympick 
Theatre, Ninth and Walnut Streets, where an oration was delivered by Mr. Thomas Allibone. 
At 4 o'clock of the same day the members, in uniform, dined at Maxwell's, being honored 



I of the members who participated in this ( 
Hugh P. Lloyd of D;irby, Delaware County. 



H. Hart, of Philadelphia 




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by the company of the following gentlemen ; Of the Army, Brigadier General Cadwalader, 
Major Ingersoll, Captain Williams, Major Biddle and Dr. LeBarron ; of the Navy, Captain 
James Biddle,- Captain Stewart, Captain Morgan, Lieutenant Conner and Major Gale of the 
Marines. 

On the 8th of October, 1817, the Troop was called to mourn the loss of its beloved 
commander. Captain Charles Ross. The remains, escorted by the Troop in full uniform, 
were borne to their last resting place, the burying ground of the First Presbyterian Church, 
Pine Street west of Fourth Street, on the afternoon of October loth, 181 7. The funeral 
service was performed at the grave in the presence of an immense concourse of people, by 
James P. Wilson, D. D., pastor of the Church. 

In the autumn of the years of 1820, 1822 and 1823, the Troop marched to Paoli, Chester 
County, to participate in the parades, sham fights and general celebrations of the anniver- 
saries of the massacre of an outpost of the American army which had there taken place, 
September 20th, 1777. 

On the 22nd of February, 1822, the Troop celebrated the day by a parade and dinner, 
at which were the following guests: Hon. Timothy Pickering, Robert Wharton, Esq., Mayor 
of Philadelphia, the Consul General of Hamburg and several officers of the United States 
Navy and Marine Corps. On the 17th of November, 1823, after the parade in honor of the 
day, the Troop presented Captain Smith with a sword and a full suit of horse equipments as 
a mark of its regard and respect. 

On the 26th of September, 1824, the Troop having been appointed as a special guard for 
the purpose, assembled and took up the line of march for Trenton " for the purpose of 
escorting the nation's guest. General La Fayette, to Philadelphia." At Holmesburg it was 
joined by the Second City Troop and the First and Third Philadelphia County Troops, and 
formed a squadron under command of Captain Smith and arrived at Trenton in the evening. 
On the following day having marched to Morrisville, the Second Philadelphia County Troop 
and the Bucks County Troop joined the squadron, and having received the General in the field, 
they marched to Bridesburg. The Troop on the march and in quarters that night was detailed 
as guard of honor, and in the morning its members were severally presented to the General. 
At Frankford the procession was met by the infantry and artillery and marched to the city, 
and the parade dismissed at the State House, with the exception of the Troop, which was 
again detailed as an escort to conduct the General to his quarters at the Mansion House. 
On the 2nd of October, by invitation of the authorities of Southwark, Moyamensing and 
Passyunk, the Troop joined the parade as an escort to the General and marched to the 
Navy Yard, where a breakfast was given by the officers of the yard and to which the Troop 
was invited. On the following Monday the Troop under command of Lieutenant Simmons, 
escorted the General with the Governor of Pennsylvania to Chester and the next day marched 
to the Delaware State line, where the following address was handed to him : 



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" General La Fayette : The Troop of City Cavalry that_/frrf welcomed you to the State 
of Pennsylvania is, upon this happy occasion, the last to take its leave. In discharging this 
task, the regret of which is cheered only by the hope of your speedy return, allow us to 
say, in addition to the lively expression of public feeling which you have already witnessed, 
that next to the ever memorable era which gave Lafayette to the wants of a suffering and 
oppressed country, we shall bear in lasting and affectionate remembrance the period of his 
restoration to its gratitude. 

To you. General, as the companion in arms of the original members of this Troop — to 
you, who have liberally mingled your blood with theirs in the deadly struggle for a nation's 
rights — to you, who have promoted the cause of virtuous liberty, wherever and whenever it 
has been asserted, the First Troop of City Cavalry tender the homage of their unfeigned 
regard. Whilst others, upon this occasion, with a warmth and an energy of feeling pecu- 
liarly your due, open their bosoms to receive you, be assured that the emotion which we ex- 
perienced in beholding as our guest the distinguished individual who contributed to the 
achievement of our national independence, though they may be equalled, cannot be sur- 
passed. 

The name of the illustrious Washington, connected with that of the gallant and dis- 
interested Lafayette, recorded in the best feelings of our hearts, shall grow brighter in the 
lapse of time, and like the inexhaustible luminaries of heaven, they shall reciprocally borrow 

and reflect lustre. 

On behalf of the First Troop, 

Wm. S. Simmons, 

Lieut. Commanding." 

To which the General replied : 

" Return my thanks to the gentlemen of the First City Troop, and tell them I feel 
grateful for their attentions to me while in Pennsylvania; that as the successors of my com- 
panions in arms I love them." 

The distinguished guest was then taken charge of by a delegation of soldiers and citizens 
of the State of Delaware, and the Troop after attending the Governor of Pennsylvania to 
Chester, returned to the city the same evening. 

On Wednesday evening, November 17th, 1824, the members assembled and celebrated 
the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Troop, by a banquet given at the Franklin 
House, (Head's), S. W. corner of Seventh and Walnut Streets. At 9 o'clock the company 
sat down in full uniform to an entertainment at which First Lieutenant William S. Simmons 
presided. The room was appropriately decorated and "the revolutionary banner of '76, 
battered and bearing the marks of rough usage was unfurled and waved o'er the chair of the 
presiding officer." After the cloth was removed the following toasts interspersed with songs 
and music, were received amid much enthusiasm. 



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1. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry — 
It finds us in the enjoyment of that liberty, which our fathers fought and bled to achieve. 

2. Washington and La Fayette — 

United in arms, and in glory, they shall not be divided in our gratitude. 

3. The President of the United States — 

An enlightened statesman. An inflexible patriot. An honest man. 

4. The Governor of the State of Pennsylvania — 

Mild, modest and conciliating in his deportment, the more we know of him the better we think of him. 

5. The cause of the Greeks — 

" Departed Spirits of the mighty dead ! 
Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled ! 
Friends of the world ! restore your swords to man. 
Fight in his sacred cause and lead the van." 

6. Alexander Hamilton — 

Living ever received and beloved. Dead ever remembered and deplored. 

7. The memory of Captain Charles Ross and the other deceased members of the Troop. 

8. J. R. C. Smith, Esq' — Our noble Captain — 

Relying upon the basis of his own merit, he neither requires praise, nor fears reproach. 

9. Liberty — 

" Thou art come from Sparta hither, and art here at home." 

10. Our fair Countrywomen — 

" Without the smile from partial beauty won. Oh ! what were man ? — A world without a sun." 

11. The departed spirits of the Revolution — 

1 2. Our Banner — 

To which the following impromptu response was made by private David Paul Brown : 

" For fifty years at fray or feast, 
O'er deadly foe, or gentle guest 

Triumphantly unfurled. 
And fifty more our flag shall wave, 
In memoiy of the good and brave, 

Who dignified the world. 
And tyranny and time defy. 
In freedom's immortality." 

On the 8th of July, 1825, the Company attended the funeral of Thomas Leiper, Esq., 
Orderly Sergeant of the Troop from 1774 to 1794. 

In consequence of the death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, (which occurred on 
the 4th of July, 1826), and agreeably to the resolutions of the Councils and citizens of 
Philadelphia, setting apart the 24th day of July to do honor to the memory of these dis- 
tinguished patriots, the Troop paraded on that day with the Division under Major-General 



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Cadwalader, and proceeded to Independence Square where an oration appropriate to the oc- 
casion was delivered by Hon. John Sargeant. 

In June of 1827, the Troop under command of Lieutenant McEuen, marched to the 
Yellow Springs in Chester County, where it went into camp for one week ; and in May of the 
next year, under command of Captain Hart, a week was spent in the same manner at Bath, 
in Bucks County. 

On the 13th of August, the Troop under command of Lieutenant Yorke, paraded with 
the Light Infantry Corps of Philadelphia Greys, at the request of Jacob Strembach, Esq., 
High Sheriff, " to assist the civil authority to suppress a riotous mob which was committing 
the most shameful and outrageous excesses in the Northern Liberties," and it remained on 
duty in the district until the morning of the fifteenth. At the request of John Conard, 
Esq., U. S. Marshal, the Troop under command of Lieutenant Richards, paraded on the 
evening of the ist of July, 1830, to attend the execution of James Porter, mail robber, 
which was to take place the following day, " as he had reason to believe an attempt would 
be made by evil disposed persons to rescue the prisoner from the sentence of the law." At 
the further request of the Marshal, expresses were dispatched to the commanding officers of 
the Germantown Troop and the Penn Township Troop, which promptly responded and were 
on the ground at the time of the execution, which was carried into effect without disturbance." 

On the 4th of October a squadron of cavalry was formed under command of Captain 
Hart, consisting of the First and Second City Troops, the First Philadelphia County Troop, 
the Delaware County Troop and the Union Troop of Chester County, and joined the 
Division parade " in celebration of the triumph of civil and religious liberty in France." 
After the parade was dismissed, the different troops composing the squadron, by invitation 
of the First Troop, sat down to a cold collation prepared at Evans' Tavern.'' 

The Troop (out of uniform) attended the funeral of William Hall, Esq., the first 2nd 
Sergeant of the Troop to 1794, and successively Cornet, Second Lieutenant and First Lieu- 
tenant from 1794 to 1803, who was buried on the 13th of December, 1831. 

On the 22nd of February, 1832, the Troop joined the civil and military procession in 
honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Washington, and made a subscription 
to the fund for the erection of a monument, the corner-stone of which was laid in Washing- 
ton Square on the anniversary of the following year, on which occasion the Troop, under 
command of Lieutenant Lardner, paraded with the Division. 

At a meeting held February i8th, 1833, the following alterations were made in the 
uniform : " the cap was altered to one similar to pattern exhibited ; the sword to be slung by 
a body belt worn under the jacket, in place of the shoulder belt as now used ; the cartridge 

1 This execution took place about the intersection of Spring Garden and Seventeenth Streets on an open piece of ground 
then known as Bush Hill. 

2 The tri-colored silk flag carried between the colors of the squadron on this parade is among the archives of the Troop. 




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box to be slung by a shoulder belt, in place of the present manner of carrying it ; the points 
of the jacket in front to be cut off and made round; and a broad striped belt, like pattern, 
to be worn round the body." ' 

Upon the occasion of the visit of President Jackson in June of this year, the Troop 
formed a squadron with the Second Troop, the Washington Cavalry and the National Troop, 
and, under the command of Captain Hart, marched to the Navy Yard and escorted the 
President to his quarters at the City Hotel, Third Street. On the next day the Troop re- 
ceived the Delaware County Troop and the Chester County Troop, and after conducting 
them to their position in the line of the division parade, was detailed as the body-guard of 
the President in the review which followed. 

In the month of October the Troop marched to Chester, for the purposes of drill and 
target exercise, and remained there several days. On its way to that town it was met at 
Darby by the Delaware County Troop and was escorted to its quarters at Chester. 

In August of 1834, the Troop was on duty for three days in the southern suburbs under 
a call of the Sheriff " to assist in quelling a riot there existing." 

On the 8th of December, 1838, in obedience to a general order of the 7th inst. , the Troop 
paraded at seven o'clock, .\. M., to proceed with the Division to Harrisburg, on a requisition 
of Governor Ritner, as military assistance was required to prevent the disturbance of the 
legislature by a threatening mob. This demonstration was known as the "Buckshot War." 
No cars large enough for the transportation of the horses having been furnished, the Troop 
was dismounted, and went as infantry. After an absence of ten days the command returned 
to the city, but was not mustered out of service until New Year's day, 1839, when the fol- 
lowing complimentary letter was read by direction of Major-General Patterson. 

"Philadelphia, January ist, 1839. 

Dear Sir, — 

I am directed by the Major General to communicate his acknowledgments to you and 
the Gentlemen in your command, of his sense of the prompt conduct, strict discipline, and 
high bearing of the Troop during the recent visit to Harrisburg, with a request that you will 
communicate the same to your officers and privates. Altho' he has no desire the same shall 
be made public, as he wishes to draw no invidious distinctions, when all are entitled to 
praise, yet he has felt desirous that his appreciation of the conduct of your command, should 
be specially made known to you ; and allow me to say, it gives me very great pleasure to be 
the person deputed to make the communication. 

I am, with great regard, -yrs, &c. &c., 
Capt : William H. Hart, John Miles, A. D. C. 

First City Troop." 

, The scarlet facings and cu& of the jacket of 1798 had been rejected by resolution at a meeting held October ^Tth. '8'S, 
and the uniform, with the akerations adopted at the meeting of Fcbmary .8th, 1833. is the dress of the Trooper of the present day. 



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The following were on duty at Harrisburg : 

William H. Hart, Captain, Thomas C. James, Private, 

John Lardner, 2nd Lieutenant, Joshua Lippincott, " 

Robert C. Hemphill, Cornet, William Lippincott, " 

John Butler, ist. Sergt., Charles McEuen, " 

Wm. Penington, 2nd Sergt. and Q. M., Sullivan A. Merideth, " 

Alexander Lardner, 3d Sergt., R. Butler Price, " 

C. Rockland Thomson, ist Corporal, William P. Rockhill, " 

Peter Abel, (honorary) Private, Joseph M. Rogers, " 

Joseph K. Eyres, " Charles Willing, " 

John F. Frazer, ' ' Henry Willing, ' ' 

William Jackson, " 

Twenty-one (21) members, and D. Beck, Trumpeter. 

Martin Van Buren, President of the United States, passed through Philadelphia on his 
way from New York to Washington on the 14th of October, 1839, and the Troop joined 
the Division which was paraded as his escort. At their dinner on the birthday of Washing- 
ton, in the following year, Major-General Winfield S. Scott, U. S. A., was a guest of the 
Troop. 

The remains of General Hugh Mercer, who fell at Princeton in 1777, were removed 
from Christ Church on the 26th of November, 1840, and the Troop paraded as a special 
escort on the occasion, the coffin being draped with the original standard of the Company. 
After a funeral service at the First Presbyterian Church, the remains were re-interred at Laurel 
Hill Cemetery. The Troop performed similar service in the ceremonies attending the removal 
of the remains of Colonel Haslett, who also fell at Princeton, which were taken from Christ 
Church on the 2nd of July, 1841, and removed to the home of his family in Delaware. 

The Troop paraded with the Division on Tuesday the 13th of April, 1S41, "to do honor 
to the memory of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States." After the 
parade was dismissed, the Troop marched to Saint Peter's Church and listened to a sermon 
preached by Bishop Onderdonk. 

In obedience to Brigade orders the Troop was called into service in 1842 to assist in 
quelling a riot in the District of Southwark. It was on duty under command of Cornet 
Jackson, from the ist until the 3d of August, when the mob was dispersed. Another riot 
broke out in Kensington in January, 1843, and the Troop having been again called into 
service with "ball cartridge," paraded on the 12th inst., under command of Lieutenant 
Jackson. 

On the 17th of February, at the funeral of Commodore Isaac Hull, U. S. Navy, the 
Troop attended the parade and escorted the remains to Christ Church. The Troop joined 
the First Brigade to parade as an escort to John Tyler, President of the United States, upon 
his visit to the city on the 9th of June. 








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The Troop assembled on the 7th of May, 1S44, in obedience to Brigade orders, to 
assist in quelling a serious riot which had broken out in Kensington. It joined the Brigade 
on Washington Square and marched to the ground as support to two pieces of cannon. 
After remaining at the scene of disturbance some hours, it returned to the city and was 
dismissed. The ne.xt day the Troop again assembled and marched to the scene of the dis- 
turbance where it was employed during the afternoon, with the rest of the Brigade under 
Brigadier-General Cadwalader, in endeavoring to preserve order in the district. About 8 
o'clock in the evening it was detached by the General to act against the mob collected 
in front of Saint Augustine's Church on Fourth Street. After a smart gallop the company 
was halted at Fourth and Vine Streets, when Captain Butler rode into the mob and addressed 
them, but was ordered by John M. Scott, Mayor of the City, to retire to the head of his Troop. 
In about ten minutes the Mayor ordered Captain Butler to withdraw his company to the west 
side of Franklin Square and there await further orders. Half an hour later, the Troop in 
obedience to a written order from the Mayor, was again marched to the ground and 
charged the mob, driving them from the vicinity of the Church and completely clearing the 
streets. As the Troop was about to take possession of the Church and occupy the square in 
which it stood, it was again ordered by the Mayor to leave the ground ; it then returned 
to Kensington and reported to General Cadwalader, remaining there until 11 o'clock, when 
it again marched into the city in company with the First Brigade, and after dispersing the 
crowd in front of Saint John's Church, on Thirteenth Street, remained at the arsenal on 
Juniper Street, until 4 o'clock of the morning of the ninth, and was then dismissed. 
Martial Law was declared in the city and the Troop continued to assemble daily, and 
on the twelfth, in company with a large body of military and United States sailors, armed as 
boarders, marched through the different sections of the city. The disturbance continued 
during the thirteenth and fourteenth of the month, on which days the Troop assembled and was 
in readiness for any emergency. On the fifteenth it again assembled, and after having been 
inspected by Brigade-Inspector, Major Thos. T. Firth, was dismissed from further service with 
orders " to assemble immediately upon hearing eight taps of the State House bell given in 
rapid succession and repeated after an interval of thirty seconds. ' ' Another serious disturb- 
ance occurring in Southwark in the following July, the Troop was on daily duty with the 
Brigade from Sunday the seventh, for one week. 

On the 1 2th of October, the Troop marched to Achoffs, in Gwynned Township, 
Montgomery County, where it spent one week for the purpose of general military instruction. 
At a meeting held on the 21st of April, 1845, the Troop appropriated two hundred dollars 
of the pay received from the city for services during the riots of the preceding year, to be 
paid to " the Committee of Relief, as an expression of the sympathy entertained by the 
members towards the sufferers by the late calamitous fire in Pittsburgh." 

On the 2nd of June, the Wilmington Light Dragoons, Captain Andrews, were re- 
ceived as guests of the Troop and paraded through the city to their quarters at Horter's Hotel 



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in Market Street. On the following day they were escorted to the grounds of the Schuylkill 
Fishing Company below Gray's Ferry, where they spent the day and partook of a dinner 
prepared by the members of the Troop at the " Castle of the State in Schuylkill," which 
was kindly lent by the Fishing Company for this purpose. 

On the twenty-si.xth, the Troop joined the Division under Command of Major-General 
Patterson, which paraded to do honor to the memory of the late President of the United 
States, Andrew Jackson. On the 6th of October, the Troop went into an encampment at 
the Brandywine Springs. At Wilmington it was met by the First and Second Troops of 
Delaware Dragoons, and escorted by them to camp, and on its return on the tenth, the 
Troop was met and escorted by the Second Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry into the city. 

On the 29th of October of the following year, the Troop joined the Division under the 
command of Brigadier-General Cadwalader in the parade to escort the remains of Commo- 
dore Stephen Decatur, United States Navy, on their removal from Georgetown, D. C, to 
Saint Peter's Church yard in this city. 

On the occasion of the visit of President James K. Polk to the city, June 23d, 1847, 
the Troop paraded as his body guard; and on the 19th of May, 1848, it escorted General 
Cadwalader into the city upon his return from Mexico, and with the Cadwalader Carvalry, 
Washington Cavalry and First and Second State Troops, received the General at Gray's Ferry. 
The cavalry then marched into the city and joined the division which conducted the General 
to Independence Hall. On the 5th of October, the Troop assembled and paraded with the 
division in the funeral procession of Commodore Biddle, United States Navy, an honorary 
member of the Troop, who was buried at Christ Church burial ground at Fifth and Arch Streets. 

In the month of October, 1849, ^ ''io' occurred in the District of Moyamensing, and 
on the tenth, the first brigade having been called into service, the Troop under command 
of Lieutenant James, was on duty until the following afternoon, when the rioters were dis- 
persed. On the thirteenth, there being some appearances of further trouble in the same 
part of the city, the Troop and several infantry companies of the brigade were again under 
arms for twenty-four hours. During the first night that the Troop was upon the scene of the 
disturbance, its members received ipany attentions at the house of Mr. Robert J. Park, and 
"as a testimonial of their just appreciation of the kindness and courtesy extended to them 
by Mr. Park," a casket containing a set of table silver was presented to Mrs. Park by them. 

On the 30th of June, 1850, the Troop paraded and took part in the funeral obsequies 
in respect to the memory of the late President of the United States, General Zachary 
Taylor. On the 7th of August of this year, the Troop paraded and attended the funeral of 
the late Commodore Jones, United States Navy. 

On the 1 2th of May, 1851, the company paraded and acted as an escort to President 
Fillmore, upon his visit to the city. 



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On the 2ist of February, 1852, the Troop by resolution appropriated the sum of one 
hundred dollars to the fund for the restoration of the monument at Paoli, Chester County, 
which was in a dilapidated condition. On the 2nd of July, the Troop paraded and 
took part in the mock funeral in respect to the memory of the Hon. Henry Clay; the pro- 
cession took place at night, and the Troop had the distinction of acting as guard of honor 
upon the occasion. 

On the 12th of July, 1853, the Division paraded upon the occasion of the visit of 
President Pierce to the city. In October of this year, the Troop assembled and proceeded 
to the tavern of George Woodruff, on the Bristol Turnpike, fourteen miles from the city, 
where they remained for one week for drill and general military instruction. 

On March 13th, 1S57, the Troop paraded and took part in the funeral obsequies of the 
late Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, U. S. N., the Arctic explorer. 

May 28th, 1858, the Troop paraded and joined the regiment under command of General 
Cadwalader, as guard upon the occasion of the funeral of General Persifer F. Smith, U. S. A. , 
and escorted the remains from Fourth and Arch Streets to Laurel Hill Cemetery. On Sep- 
tember ist, of this year, they participated in the Division parade in commemoration of the 
successful completion of the Atlantic cable telegraph. 

On the gth of June, i860, the Troop paraded with the Division in the escort of the 
Japanese Embassy which arrived in the city that day. 

The drift of political affairs during the winter of 1860-61, made it evident that 
local disturbances, if not anything more serious, might call the Troop into active service 
and more than usual attention was paid to the drills and to the instruction of non-com- 
missioned officers and men. 

The attack on Fort Sumter and the subsequent events which are matters of general 
history, pointed still more strongly in the same direction, and as soon as the call for troops 
was made by the general government on the 15th of April, the Company tendered its ser- 
vices under the call. At first the military authorities declined to receive any cavalry, believ- 
ing that only infantry would be required from the States, and that the regular cavalry and 
artillery would be sufficient, but Captain James by a visit to Washington, succeeded in in- 
ducing the War Department to receive the Troop, and an order to that effect was soon issued. 
In the meantime the Company was actively engaged in adding to its roll, so as to bring the 
number up to that required by the regulations, and drills took place daily. 

The government agreed to supply arms, horse furniture and camp equipage, but there 
were many other things to be provided, and the following paper circulated among the 
friends of the Troop was quickly responded to, and the money thus generously contributed 
was expended in the purchase of horses and uniforms for the trumpeters and farrier, for 
valises and portions of outfit of new members, for extra pay of trumpeters and general pur- 
poses of a " Company Fund " during the campaign. 



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"The undersigned request the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry to receive from 
us to defray extraordinary expenses. 









Philadelphia, May 4th, 


1861. 


Thomas Smith, 




5500. 


E. J. Lewis, 


^50. 


John Grigg, 




100. 


Henry Lewis, Jr., 


SO- 


Wm. H. Hart, 




100. 


John B. Austin, 


SO- 


Evans Rogers, 




100. 


Alexander Benson, 


100. 


Wm. a. Blanchard, 




100. 


Thomas P. Hoopes, 


5°- 


John A. Brown, 




100. 


A. C. Cattell, 


100. 


John B. Budd, 




loo. 


Dr. David Javne, 


100. 


H. P. Borie, 




100. 


M. J. LUKENS, 


SO- 


E. M. Hopkins, 




100. 


John Dallett, 


SO- 


Daniel Smith, Jun'r 


, 


100. 


Jno. Gibson, Sons & Co., 


100. 


Wharton Fisher, 




100. 


John T. Lewis & Bros., 


100. 


W. H. Newbold, Son 


& Aertsen 


, 100. 


Sa.m'l L. Shober, 


100. 


H. T. DeSilver, 




200. 


Tatham & Bros., 


SO. 


Drexel & Co. , 




100. 


Moore & Campion, 


100. 


C. Macalester, 




so- 


Thomas Sparks, 


100. 


John Bohlen, Jr., 




100. 


RoBT. H. Gratz, 


100. 


Waterman Son, Fox 


& Co., 


so- 


Wm. H. Stewart, 


100. 


WiLMER, Cannell & Co., 


so- 


Del. Mutual Ins. Co., 


100. 


W. Henry Reese, 




so- 


Dr. Alex. H. Smith, 


I GO. 


John B. Myers, 




100. 
100. 


Charles S. Cox, 


TOO. 


Stephen Morris, 


Total, $ 


+,OSO.' 



On the fourth of May, a flag and a standard bearing the arms of the City of Philadel- 
phia were presented to the Troop by a number of ladies,' and an appropriate correspon- 
dence passed between them and a committee of the Company. 

On the thirteenth, the Company assembled at nine o'clock on the vacant ground in the 
rear of the Academy of Music at Broad and Locust Streets, which was at that time its 
usual place of meeting for mounted parades, and riding slowly down to Point Breeze 
Park, was there inspected by Major Ruff, U. S. A., mustering officer, and mustered into the 
service of the United States for the term of ninety days. The horses all belonged to the 
Troopers and were appraised by the mustering officer, the government agreeing to pay for 



. Mrs. John Grigg, 
Mis. George J. Weaver, 
Mrs. Charles J. Peterson, 
Mrs. H. T. DeSilver, 
Mrs. Jos. F. Tobias, 
Mrs. Daniel Haddock, Jr., 
Mrs. James Carstairs. Jr., 



Mrs. Charles Carstairs, 
Mrs. J. H. Chambers, 
Mrs. P. Jenks Smith, 
Mrs. Michael Weaver, 
Mrs. Stephen Kimball, 
Mrs. E. H. Filler, 
Mrs. Dr. Bond, 



. Thos M. Quicksall, 
. Wm. A. Blanchard, 
. Charles Koons, 
. B. H. Moore, 
. J, Warner Erwin. 




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any lost or injured. It perhaps speaks well for the care bestowed upon the horses that only- 
one horse died during the campaign. Report said that the Troop would be sent imme- 
diately to Elkton in Maryland, as offensive operations had already commenced at Perryville 
on the Susquehanna, and Captain James made a visit to that place the following day to 
select a spot for the camp ; but the intention of sending the Troop there was however 
abandoned. 

After having been mustered into the service a mounted drill took place every day either 
at Fairmount Park, Point Breeze Park, or on South Broad Street, and roll call each evening 
at the Armory, which was then in the third story of the building at the South-west corner 
of Twelfth and Chestnut Streets. 

In the meantime the materials for the campaign were being prepared, and it having been 
decided that the regular army uniform should be worn, the Company on the twenty-third, 
marched, dismounted, to the Arsenal on the Gray's Ferry Road and was fitted out, each 
man paying for his own suit, and marched back to the Armory carrying the bundles. The 
uniform was that of the U. S. Dragoon, and consisted of a dark blue cloth cap, with top 
falling forward and crossed sabres in brass on the centre ; a full dress jacket of dark blue 
cloth, trimmed with orange braid ; a blouse of dark blue flannel, and trowsers of light blue 
cloth, re-inforced with a saddle piece on the inside of the leg. The sergeant's trowsers 
had broad, and the corporal's narrow stripes of orange braid on the outer seam, and their 
jackets and blouses had the usual chevrons in orange braid. The regular dark blue Troop 
overcoat completed the equipment, it being a much better garment than the army overcoat. 
The first drill in the new uniform took place on the following Saturday. 

It being a time-honored custom of the Troop to attend service at St. Peter's Church, 
at Third and Pine Streets, on the Sunday preceding a departure for active service, the Com- 
pany marched to the Church on the twenty-sixth, wearing the new United States uniform 
and were addressed at the close of the sermon by the Rev. George Leeds, rector. The an- 
cient appearance of the Church, the earnest words of the pastor, and the crowd of friends 
of the command, made the scene a solemn and impressive one. 

On the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth, the arms, blankets, canteens, haversacks and 
camp equipage were received. Everything was now in readiness for a start, except the 
saddles which were not furnished until the next night. The horse equipment was that of the 
regular cavalry service, the McClellan saddle with the Mexican ring and girth, blue saddle 
blanket, black leather bridle with blued steel bit and watering bit and lariat. The arms 
were a brass mounted sabre and Colt's navy revolver, and the belts of black leather with the 
narrow shoulder belt to take part of the weight of the sabre. 

There had been many rumors as to the destination of the Company, but it was at last 
clearly understood that it was to be attached to the Second U. S. Cavalry, commanded by 
Colonel, afterwards the distinguished General George H. Thomas. Orders were issued to 



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meet at 8 o'clock on Thursday, the 30th of May, at the Armory, and to be on the 
ground in the rear of the Academy of Music at half-past ten. It was a beautiful spring 
morning and the Troopers turned up fresh and cheerful, in full marching order, with tin cups 
and well filled haversacks, and in many cases some impedimenta which subsequent experience 
diminished. The necessary formalities occupied a short time and at half-past eleven the 
bugles sounded the ' ' forward. ' ' The route lay along Broad Street to Walnut, down Walnut to 
Twelfth, up Chestnut to one of the streets near the river and across the Market Street Bridge 
to Hestonville, where the horses were put on the cars and the last farewells were spoken to 
those who had driven out to say good bye. The scene along the streets was quite exciting, 
crowds of people lined the sidewalks, the windows were full, and at the Philadelphia Club 
House particularly, the enthusiasm was great. 

An uneventful ride over the Pennsylvania Railroad brought the Troop to Carlisle about 
midnight, where the officers of the Second Cavalry welcomed its officers kindly, and the men 
and horses were billeted in the town. The next morning four Companies of Colonel Thomas' 
regiment marched into town from the barracks and the Troop joined them in the open 
square or " diamond " in the centre of the town. It was a bright sunny morning and the 
march commenced under the most pleasant auspices, ending at Shippensburg at 4 o'clock, 
where the Troop pitched its first camp in a shady grove, to which the good people of the 
town brought coffee and other provisions which were gladly received. 

The next day (June ist), the Command marched to Chambersburg and encamped near 
the town. Other military, principally Pennsylvania regiments, were lying close by. This 
camp (M'Clure) was occupied for five days, during which some heavy rains tried the temper 
of the men. The time spent at this place was devoted to the organization of the army. 
General Patterson arriving on the evening of the 2nd of June, and making his Head-Quarters 
in the town. 

On the yth of June, the whole column, now consisting of the cavalry, Doubleday's 
Regular Artillery, McMullen's Rangers from Philadelphia, and the 9th, 21st and 23d Regi- 
ments Pennsylvania Volunteers, moved to Greencastle, eleven miles farther south-west, and 
remained there in camp (Wingerd) until the morning of the fifteenth, wtien the column again 
moved to Williamsport on the Potomac. On Sunday the sixteenth, the "general" was 
sounded at 8 o'clock in the morning, and it was soon understood that the column would cross 
the Potomac into Virginia, a movement naturally looked forward to with considerable in- 
terest. By 12 o'clock the line was in motion, and at half-past one the crossing commenced. 
Some infantry had been sent over in advance, and it being the turn of the Troop to 
head the column in the march on that day, it had the honor of being the first of the main 
body to cross. Brilliant sunshine, the wide shallow river with the long line of blue coats 
winding slowly across it, the interested groups watching the movement from the high bluffs 
on the Williamsport side, combined to make the scene one of great interest and beauty. The 



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march was continued to Falling Waters, about four miles from the river, where the camp was 
pitched. A number of Union men, who had been driven out of Virginia, crossed with the 
army at this tiipe, and regained their homes. The force thus moved to the Virginia side of 
the river was under the command of General Cadwalader, General Patterson remaining at 
Hagerstown. 

The following day, a report having been brought in that some rebel cavalry were near by, 
the Troop was ordered out on a scout and came up with a small body of mounted men who 
retreated without any resistance. General Patterson having at this time received a peremp- 
tory order to send the regular troops and the Rhode Island regiment to Washington at once, 
the four companies of the Second Cavalry and all the rest of the military were recalled, 
leaving Dare's Infantry Regiment (23d Pa. Vol.), and the Troop on the Virginia side of the 
Potomac. Orders had been sent for them to cross also, but the man who carried them having 
been shot, they were not received. A picket from the Troop consisting of ten men was 
sent out at dark about two miles to the front, coming in at daylight, immediately after which 
Dare's Regiment and the Troop recrossed the Potomac and no troops were left in Virginia at 
that point. 

The Troop went to its old camping ground (Camp Union) near Williamsport, and found 
the regular cavalry there, but that same evening they moved off on their way to Washing- 
ton, leaving the Troop alone. 

It appears from General Joe Johnston's narrative, that as soon as he heard of the cross- 
ing of General Patterson, he moved his troops from near Charlestown, where they were en 
route for Winchester, to Bunker Hill, midway between Martinsburg and Winchester, to be 
in a position to oppose a junction of Patterson's and McClellan's forces, and that when news 
of the recrossing of Patterson on the eighteenth reached him, he moved back to Winchester 
which he made his Head-Quarters. 

On the twentieth, the regular cavalry returned, the order detaching them having been 
countermanded, and the next day the camp was moved to a pleasant grove on the banks of 
the Conococheague, about two miles northwest of Williamsport, and on the twenty-fifth the 
Troop moved back to its old camp, leaving the regulars in Camp Conococheague. 

On the morning of the twenty-ninth, an alarm that a body of the enemy had crossed 
the river below, caused all the troops to be turned out about 6 o'clock, and after remaining 
in and around Williamsport until 11 o'clock, orders were received to go into camp again. 
The alarm was based upon the crossing of a small body of the enemy near Harper's Ferry 
for the purpose of destroying boats at that point. 

The morning of the ist of July having been decided upon for the second crossing of 
the river, the Troop moved out of its camp at daylight, and after waiting in the streets of 
Williamsport for several hours, was ordered back to its camp, the rebels having destroyed a 



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dam on the river and made it impassable for infantry. In tlie afternoon, the Second Cavalry- 
joined the Troop again in its old camp. 

The next day the second crossing of the Potomac took place, commencing at 4 o'clock 
in the morning. It was a brilliant, warm summer day, and the army after crossing, immediate- 
ly took the direct road for Martinsburg. About four miles from the ford, near Falling Waters, 
and nearly at the place occupied by the advanced picket of the Troop on the night of June 
17th, the skirmishers on the front and right flank became engaged with the enemy which 
consisted of Colonel, (afterwards General) Stonewall Jackson's Brigade, with a small body of 
cavalry under Stuart, and one field piece commanded by the Rev. Captain Pendleton, after- 
wards a distinguished artillery commander ; the Fifth Virginia Infantry, Colonel Harper, 
was principally engaged. On the Union side, the First Wisconsin, and the Eleventh Penn- 
sylvania Regiments, McMullen's Rangers, Perkins' (regular) Battery and the Troop were 
in action. 

As soon as the engagement commenced, one section of Perkins' Battery, supported by 
the Troop, was hurried along the road to the top of a slight hill, and a brisk fire opened 
upon the enemy who were partly sheltered by Porterfield's farm buildings. Pendleton's gun 
returned the fire, and a sharp musketry rattle was kept up between the skirmishers. The 
Second Cavalry had been despatched towards the enemy's right flank, when he gradually fell 
back, leaving the farm buildings in flames. The mansion house was immediately occupied as a 
hospital for the wounded of both parties, and the pursuit of the enemy, who now began a rapid 
retreat, was kept up for about three miles, to Hainesville, where the Union troops halted and 
went into camp. The enemy continued to fall back through Martinsburg to Darksville, six 
or seven miles below Martinsburg, where they met the main body of Johnston's force coming 
up to support them. 

In this skirmish the loss was not heavy on either side, but it was one of the first times in 
which troops had been engaged in any considerable numbers or in a systematic manner, and is 
noteworthy because many of the officers on both sides became the most distinguished in the 
war. During the night after the fight, a part of the Troop, under the command of Lieutenant 
Camac, was employed on picket duty about two miles south of Hainesville. On the 
morning of the third, the column reached and occupied Martinsburg without any resistance, 
and the Troop went into camp in a bare field on the edge of the town. 

On the 4th of July, the non-commissioned staff was re-organized as follows: 
ist Sergt. Fairm.'^n Rogers, ist Corp. M. Edward Rogers, 

2nd " William D. Smith, 2nd " Charles F. Lennig, 

3d " Robert Morris, Jr., 3d " Robert E. Randall, 

4th " Samuel J. Randall, Q. M., 4th " Edwin A. Lewis. 

The day was marked by the prescribed noon salute and the Troop participated in the 
dress parade of the cavalry ordered by Colonel Thomas. 



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On the sixth the Troop was sent out, as part of an escort accompanying Lieutenant 
Babcock of the regular army, on an armed reconnoissance along the Baltimore and Ohio 
Railroad. 

On the ninth, at "retreat," William P. Brinton, a Union resident of Harper's Ferry 
and a brother of a member of the Troop, was elected and attached to the company by order 
of the Major-General commanding. 

Up to this time want of transportation and a desire to keep Johnston at Winchester, 
had induced General Patterson to remain quietly at Martinsburg, but on the morning of the 
fifteenth, the line of march was taken up for Bunker Hill, a few miles south of Martinsburg, 
•and as the Troop was in the rear guard of a long wagon train, the march was slow and tedious. 
On the road the company stopped to water at a house belonging to one of its old members, 
Francis Peters. The ne.xt day was passed at Bunker Hill, four troopers being sent out on 
picket duty with some of the regulars. 

On the seventeenth, the column moved to Charlestown, the Troop being attached 
to Colonel Stone's column which formed the advance, having the head of the column with 
the I yth Pennsylvania Regiment. 

At Middleway or Smithfield, line of battle was formed in consequence of rumors of an 
approaching enemy. The Troop was divided into two detachments, one being sent to either 
end of the line. The rumor proving false, the army again formed column in the road and 
advanced slowly towards Charlestown, the Troop in small bodies being employed in examina- 
tions of the by-roads. Early in the afternoon Charlestown was entered, the Troop having 
the head of the main column, and Company A, Second Cavalry, Captain Arnold, entering 
by a parallel road. A beautiful camp in an apple orchard belonging to the house of a Colonel 
Ransom of the Confederate service, was occupied by the cavalry. On the eighteenth, private 
Osgood Welsh, a new member, joined the command. General Johnston who was still at 
Winchester, having received information of the attack upon General Beauregard by the 
Union army near Manasses Junction on the eighteenth, immediately decided to go to his 
relief, and instructing Colonel Stuart to make such use of his cavalry as would delay the in- 
formation of his movement reaching the Union army as long as possible, he left Winchester 
with the rest of his force at noon on that day. Colonel Stuart did his work so well that 
the movement was not discovered until the twentieth, and on the twenty-first the whole of 
Patterson's column moved to Harper's Ferry. 

The Troop went into camp on the hill between Furnace Ridge and the town, in a rather 
uncomfortable place, destitute of water. From this time until its discharge the Troop was 
regularly employed on picket duty, a detail being made up every day of from four to six 
men from each company, commanded in turn by a non-commissioned officer from each com- 
pany, so that the turn of a non-commissioned officer of the Troop came every fourth day. 
The tour of duty lasted twenty-four hours. 



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On the 2ist of July, the battle of Bull Run was fought, and on the twenty-third, 
the regiment received orders to pack preparatory to moving to Washington ; the order 
was however countermanded, and the Troop was sent about sunset to Key's Ferry on the 
Shenendoah to relieve Captain Arnold's company. Sergeant Morris was sent across the river 
with a small detachment, and about half-past 2 o'clock in the morning of the following day, 
Colonel Ward of the 1 2th New York Regiment, came down with four hundred infantry and 
orders for the Troop to join him in the attempted capture of a company of cavalry which was 
said to be encamped about five miles across the river. The expedition in the cool grey 
morning was a very agreeable one, but was unsuccessful, as the foe had departed. 

The Key's Ferry camp was beautifully situated, and a superb bath under the foaming shute 
of the old mill, was one of those comparatively trivial incidents of camp life which makes a 
strong impression upon those who sometimes recall the features of the campaign. The 
Troop was relieved the same afternoon and returned to Harper's Ferry, leaving Sergeant 
Morris and twenty men who came in during the night. 

The next day. Corporal Lennig and five men with some of the regulars, were sent to 
Hagerstown as an escort to General Patterson on his way home. General Banks having ar- 
rived to relieve him. 

On the twenty-sixth, a detail of sixteen men, with an equal number from each of the 
regular companies, was sent out on a scout under Lieutenants Anderson and Burbank ; and 
Sergeant Morris and five men were sent to Key's Ferry on the following day. 

On the twenty-eighth, the regiment crossed the Potomac by the ford at the Arsenal, and 
went into camp on the Maryland side of the river at Sandy Hook, or Pleasant Valley, on a 
wooded hill side. Corporal Lennig and seven men were left at Harper's Ferry with Colonel 
Gordon for picket duty, and returned to camp on the 2nd of August, after a tour of dis- 
agreeable and dangerous service. On the same day. Corporal Lewis and seven men were sent 
to Antietam Ford, and on the next day, Sergeant Morris with seventeen men and an equal 
number from each regular company, went under Lieutenant Sweet to Antietam. 

In addition to this extra service, the usual pickets were kept up on the south side of 
the river, being sent out at 4 o'clock every afternoon, and not getting back to camp until 
nine or ten the next night, after being relieved. Crossing the deep and rough ford at the 
Arsenal after dark, was a particularly uncomfortable business, as it was a made road or cause- 
way under water, and with comparatively deep water on both sides of it, so that a restive or 
startled horse sometimes slipped off the edge and gave his rider an unexpected bath. 

This constant picket duty, which was in the hands of the non-commissioned officers, had 
a great deal to do with the proficiency which they exhibited in kindred duty on a larger 
scale, when so many of them were called later in the war, to posts of difficulty and danger. 

As the time of the three months men had nearly expired and the new three years 



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regiments began to arrive, re-organization was the order of the day, and the time was passed 
quietly in camp until the loth and i ith of August, which days were occupied in packing and 
in turning over government property. 

On the morning of the twelfth, the Troop was formed at 8 o'clock, and marched at half- 
past eight, the Fifth Cavalry being drawn up, dismounted, to say good-bye.' Colonel Geary 
with his regiment escorted the Company as fvr as the town of Sandy Hook, and took leave of 
it in a complimentary speech, while the rain poured down in a way which might have been 
rather depressing to men not homeward bound. It soon cleared up, however, and a very 
agreeable march was made to Hagerstown, which place was reached about 6 o'clock ; the 
horses were billeted at the different stables and the men indulged in the unwonted luxury of 
beds at the hotel. 

On the thirteenth, the command took the cars, and after a long rainy day, arrived about 
dusk at Hestonville near West Philadelphia, where the night was spent. 

The next morning, August 14th, every one was stirring at an early hour, and at half-past 
eight the line of march was taken up for the city. A short halt was made near the west end 
of the Market Street bridge, and then the Troop escorted by those members who had been 
unable to leave home, commanded by Surgeon Paul B. Goddard, crossed the bridge at 10 
o'clock. At the east end of the bridge the escort was formed, and the column, under the 
command of Colonel Francis E. Patterson, took up its line of march down Twenty-Second 
Street in the following order: 

The Washington Cavalry of Holmesburg, 

Pennsylvania Cornet Band. 

First Regiment Artillery (17th of the line) Colonel Patterson. 

Beck's Philadelphia Band. 

Independent Rangers, Captain William McMuIlen. 

First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. 

Cavalcade of Citizens. 

Birgfeld's Band. 

First Regiment Home Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ross Snowden. 

The route was down Twenty-second to Spruce, down Spruce to Twelfth, up Twelfth to 
Locust, up Locust to Thirteenth, passing General Patterson's house. The General was on his 
door-step and was cheered by all the troops. The escort was dismissed in Broad Street and 
the Troop, after marching through some of the principal streets, halted in front of General 
Patterson'^ house and was there addressed by him. The Company then marched to the 
ground on Locust Street and was there dismissed. 

, In the re-organi«tion of the mounted troops of the Regular Army, August 3d, .861, the Second Cavalry;became the Fifth 
Cavalry. 



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On the seventeenth, a street parade was made, and at the conclusion of it the Troop was 
mustered out of the service of the United States at i o'clock by Colonel Ruff. Thus 
ended a campaign which reflected honor upon the Company, and was full of pleasant memo- 
ries for those who took part in it. As a school for cavalry officers it was invaluable, and the 
members of the Troop were eagerly sought by those colonels of cavalry regiments who 
were at that time forming their three years commands. The printed roll shows that thirty- 
seven Troopers of the eighty-six returned to the service, and their previous instruction in 
their duties made them valuable officers, while not a few of them attained distinction in their 
military career. The Sixth Pennsylvania drew largely from the c anks of the Company, and two 
of the officers of the Troop returned immediately to the field in command of cavalry regiments. 

The duties performed by the non-commissioned officers and privates during the three 
months service were arduous, when the previous habits of the men are considered, and they 
were performed willingly and good humoredly. Carrying water up muddy hills in iron 
buckets which, having been used for cooking, were black and greasy on the outside, digging 
trenches for camp ofifal, currying muddy horses after a long march, at first did not come 
easily to those who had not been accustomed to it, but good spirits and pluck made such 
things readily bearable, and it was a point of honor to do all the duties of a soldier. The 
rigid discipline of a camp is rather hard upon a man who has always been free to go as he 
pleases, and the discipline in the Troop camp was always as strict as in that of the regulars. 
With gentlemen it was only necessary to notice quietly any little infraction of duty, and 
no punishments were ever inflicted. 

Many humorous incidents hardly worthy of even a passing notice in print, constantly re- 
call themselves to those who took part in the campaign, when a few old comrades get together 
and talk over the events of 1861. The pleasantest possible relations existed between the 
members of the Troop and the officers of the Fifth Cavalry, which in many cases ripened 
into closer friendship when they served together in other capacities later in the war. The 
following is the list of the men who served in this campaign : 

Thomas C. James, Captain, Robert E. Randall, 3d Corporal, 

R. Butler Price, ist Lieutenant,' Edwin A. Lewis, 4th " 

William Camac, 2nd " William R. Angier, Private, 

Fairman Rogers, ist Sergeant, Henry Ashhurst, " 

William D. Smith, 2nd " Samuel Bell, Jr. , " 

Robert Morris, Jr., 3d " Robert W. Bickley, " 

Samuel J. Randall, 4th " William Blanchard, " 

M. Edward Rogers, ist Corporal, John Borthwick, " 

Charles F. Lennig, 2nd " Joseph P. Brinton, " 

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William P. Brinton,' Private, 

John A. Brown, Jr., " 

T. Morgan Budd, " 

Joseph R. Burke, " 

William H. Butler, " 
Charles E. Cadwalader, " 

Emlen N. Carpenter, " 

John H. Caswell, " 
George Cochran, ■ " 

Augustus M. Conover, " 

Edward S. Cooper, " 

Wm. Stevenson Davis, " 

Richard G. Devereux, " 

Rudolph Ellis, " 

George G. Evans, " 

Horace Y. Evans, " 

John B. Fassitt, " 

Nalbro' Frazier, Jr., " 

George Gilpin, " 

Harvey B. Goddard, " 

Robert E. Gray, Jr., " 

John W. Grigg, " 

James H. Harper, " 

J. Henry Haseltine, " 

N. Parker Haven, " 

Alexander Hemsley, " 

Alfred Horner, Jr., " 

William H. Howell, " 

Samuel F. Jacobs, " 

R. Patterson K.'Vne, " 

Charles S. Kevser, " 

Hartman Kuhn, " 

J. Hamilton Kuhn, " 

Charles L. Leiper, •' 



Edward Loweer, Jr., Private, 

Lewis McMakin, " 

Wm. Harvey Merritt, " 

Gabriel Middleton, " 

Horace P. Mitchell, " 

Joseph R. Paxton, " 

Andrew J. Pemberton, '' 

Clifford Pemberton, " 

William H. Potter, " 

Edwin L. Reakirt, " 

James D. Relf, Jr., " 

Charles E. Richards, " 

Daniel H. Riddle, " 

David C. F. Rivinus, " 

Franklin S. Seitzinger, " 

Albert V. Sloan, " 

Benjamin P. Sloan, " 

Cooper Smith, " 

E. Whitehead Smith, " 

Stephen E. Smith, " 

Charles F. Taggart, " 

Edwin L. Tevis, " 

John Thompson, " 

Henry Tucker, " 

Osgood Welsh, ^ " 

James West, Jr., " 

Francis D. Wetherill, " 

Edward W. White, " 

G. Irvine Whitehead, ' ' 

Charles M. Willing, " 

Robert P. Wilson, " 

Joseph P. Wood, " 

William W. Wood, " 

William W. AVurts, " 



Eighty-six (86 j members and George Dunn and Joseph Nosher, Trumpeters ; Frank 
D. Wood, Farrier and John Agen, Recruit. 



r Priv.lte W. P. Brinlon served from July 9th. 
2 Private Welsh served from July 191)1. 



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While in camp at Sandy Hook, a few days before the return of the Company, private 
Willing became very ill and was sent home to receive better attention than it was possible for 
him to have in the field. Unfortunately his disease, typhus fever, had taken too strong a 
hold upon him, and on the 5th of September he died much regretted by his companions in 
arms. He was buried by the Troop on the following Saturday. 

Immediately after the return of the Company, many of its active members became inter- 
ested in the preparations for raising regiments for the three years service. Colonel R. But- 
ler Price, First Lieutenant of the Troop, was raising the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry and 
several Troopers joined him, and the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Lancers) then being 
formed, was partly officered from the ranks of the Troop. 

On the 17th of November, the regular anniversary dinner took place at the Conti- 
nental Hotel and was largely attended, many of the members being on the eve of de- 
parture with the new regiments. There were many distinguished guests present, civil and 
military, among them General Patterson, who in an interesting speech explained his move- 
ments in the valley of the Shenandoah, and gave his reasons for the operations of the cam- 
paign. 

In the early part of May, 1862, General Jackson, taking advantage of the separation of 
General McDowell's Corps from the forces operating in the immediate vicinity of Washing- 
ton, moved rapidly with about fifteen thousand men, up the Shenandoah valley, and defeated 
in detail, the separated Union forces in that portion of Virginia, finally driving the corps 
under General Banks, to the northern shore of the Potomac. This bold movement produced 
the greatest consternation at the National Capitol, and grave apprehension was felt for the 
safety of that city. 

In this emergency the President called upon the Governor of Pennsylvania to furnish 
troops for special service, and in pursuance thereto. Governor Curtin on the 25th of May, 
ordered Major-General Patterson "to muster the military force under your (his) command, 
to protect the Capitol of the Country." 

On the following morning. Cornet Randall, — Captain James and Lieutenants Price and 
Rogers being in active service in the field — despatched a note to the General commanding 
the Division, tendering the services of the Troop. His prompt action was unanimously en- 
dorsed by the Company at a meeting held the same evening. 

Early the succeeding day, Cornet Randall in obe'dience to orders, reported by letter to 
the commanding General, "thirty men ready for active and immediate service under the 
recent requisition of the President of the United States and the Governor of Pennsylvania." 
In the same communication he informed General Patterson that the " number reported for 
duty embrace nearly every member now in the city. The larger portion of the command 
being absent as officers in the several armies of the Union." 



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The Confederate army having accomplished the objects of its advance, fell back upon 
Richmond as rapidly as it had moved up the valley, and its retirement rendering unnecessary 
the employmentof the State forces, the services of the Troop were respectfully declined, 
with the thanks of the Major-General commanding. 

The subsequent disastrous campaign of the Peninsula, culminating in the defeat and 
retreat of the Union army under General Pope to the lines of Washington, aroused the 
energies of the whole North in a manly effort to drive back the victorious foe. The Gov- 
ernor of the Commonwealth issued his proclamation calling upon the military organizations in 
the State to put themselves in a condition of thorough efficiency, and also recommending that 
citizens prepare for probable future services. 

The Troop held itself in constant readiness to obey any order given it for active service. 
The members met daily for consultation and drill, with a desire to aid in carrying out the 
suggestions contained in the proclamation of the Governor, as to a general preparation on 
the part of military organizations and private citizens for probable future military duty. 
The commanding officer of the Troop was requested to tender to the Mayor of the City 
the services of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Company, and the use 
of its armory for the purpose of instructing those who should desire to become familiar with 
military movements and the use of arms. A courteous reply was received from Mayor Henry, 
and the proposition was submitted to the committee of defence, which had previously been 
formed. The attempt to carry out this project was not a success, as it was found impossible 
to have the proper control of men unless they were regularly enlisted. 

Between the 4th and 7th of September the whole Confederate army, after defeating 
General Pope, crossed the Potomac and encamped in the neighborhood of Frederick, Mary- 
land. The emergency was pressing, the danger great, and the call for men imperative. 
The Troop, weakened by the absence of three of its commissioned officers, as well as 
the greater portion of its members, who were serving in the field, concluded that it could 
render the most efficient service by raising a regiment of cavalry, and officering it from the 
men of the Command who were anxious to give the benefit of their drill and experience to 
the cause of their imperilled country. 

At a meeting held on the eighth, it was resolved, in furtherance of this project to 
recruit a regiment of cavalry for immediate service. A large store-room was rented on 
the south side of Chestnut Street, west of Seventh, which was opened as a recruiting station, 
and over five hundred men were promptly enlisted under the popular impulse given by 
the Company. At this stage a requisition was made upon the State authorities for horses and 
equipments, which was refused. As the State would, or could do nothing toward equipping 
the regiment, and as it was impossible for the Troop to furnish the amount of money re- 
quired for that purpose, the men were reluctantly discharged and the project abandoned. 
The Troop was thus prevented from sharing in the campaign which terminated in the battle 
at Antietam, and the expulsion of the enemy from the State of Maryland. 



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On the 26th of November, the Troop acted as a special guard of honor over the remains 
of Brigadier-General Francis E. Patterson, U. S. A., son of Major-General Patterson, long 
in command of the ist Division Pennsylvania Militia. 

On the 13th of January, 1863, the Command was called upon to mourn the loss of 
Captain Thomas C. James, who died from disease contracted in the trying and severe service 
in which the regiment he commanded (the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry), was employed. 

The disastrous repulse of the Union army at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the early part 
of this year, followed by the almost equally unfortunate battle at Chancellorsville, produced 
their logical results upon the two great opposing armies. The Army of the Potomac, although 
undismayed, felt the demoralizing effect of these reverses, and the frequent changes of its com- 
manders ; while the Army of Northern Virginia on the other hand, inspired by recent suc- 
cesses and with an unbounded confidence in the military chieftain who had so often led it to 
battle, opened the summer campaign by the policy which had long engaged the attention and 
commanded the support of the Richmond government, that of transferring the seat of war 
north of the Potomac. 

The misfortune attending its execution in the brief campaign in Maryland, the preced- 
ing year, which terminated in the Battle of Antietam, was forgotten in the successes recently 
achieved over the armies of the Union. It is believed that the determination to invade the 
loyal States was more the immediate result of an excited and over confident feeling that per- 
vaded the army and the southern people generally, than the wise and calm judgment of the 
soldier who commanded its armies in Virginia. Whether the campaign, go full of hazard in 
its conception and so disastrous in its results, was forced upon General Lee or not, is a matter 
of but little consequence at present. Suffice it to know that the 3d day of June found the 
army under his command moving stealthily but rapidly in a northern direction. General 
Hooker then in command of the Army of the Potomac, apparently was not aware of the enemy's 
designs until the end of the following week, and Lee's advance had reached Winchester in 
three days march from Culpepper, a distance of seventy miles, while the Union army still lay 
on the Rappahanock as late as the thirteenth. On that day the army moved in the direction 
of Washington, and continued to feel its way, until under its new commander, Major-General 
George Gordon Meade, it struck the enemy at Gettysburg. 

This advance of the Confederate army north of the Potomac, into one of the richest 
valleys of Pennsylvania, filled the country with alarm, and in this grave emergency the 
Governor issued a proclamation making a further call on the people of the Common- 
wealth to defend the border, and to aid the nation in the great peril by which it was 
threatened. On the first intimation of the invasion, Cornet Randall proceeded to Harris- 
burg to make arrangements by which the Troop could go into service if it was found 
necessary. A special meeting of the Company was called on the i6th of June, and it was 
unanimously resolved to proceed at once to Harrisburg. 



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A telegram was dispatched to Cornet Randall notif\-ing him of the action of the Troop, 
and requesting him to notify the Command whether or not the State would furnish horses ; 
an adjournment vfas had for an hour, when on re-assembling the following telegraphic dispatch, 
was received : "State unable at present to furnish horses — Troop should hold itself in readiness 
for service. ' ' At this stage of the proceedings, Mr. O. W. Davis, a member, arose and offered 
to advance the necessary funds for the purchase of horses. This generous offer was received 
and accepted with cheers, and the men were ordered to report next morning at 9 o'clock 
to select horses for service. 

The next day at the hour named, the street in front of the armory, (Twelfth Street below 
Chestnut), presented an animated, exciting and interesting scene. Here was assembled a 
score or more of jockeys and horse dealers with their animals, many utterly unfit for service, 
which they hoped to sell in the hurry of the emergency. Kicking horses endangered the 
limbs of all near them, while balky ones obstructed the street and prevented the exercise of 
others which were under examination. By 12 o'clock, however, the number required was 
purchased and sent to the Troopers' stables. 

The Company well equipped in every respect and provided with commissary supplies 
for two weeks, assembled the same afternoon on the ground back of the Academy of Music at 
5 o'clock, ready to start for Harrisburg. It was then ascertained that the promised transporta- 
tion could not be had until the next day. The Command was therefore dismissed with 
orders to report for duty the following morning at 11 o'clock. On the eighteenth, at this 
hour, the Company assembled and proceeded at once to Mantua, West Philadelphia, where a 
special train was in waiting to transport men and horses to Harrisburg, where it arrived the 
next morning at i o'clock, and was joined by Cornet S. J. Randall and Sergeant R. E. 
Randall. 

Governor Curtin on the recommendation of General Couch, accepted the Troop with- 
out swearing its members into the service, as was required of the other companies offering 
themselves. General Couch in announcing this fact to the Cornet Commanding said : "I 
know we can trust to the honor of this Corps without an oath." The Troop through the 
commanding officer: " thanked the General Commanding, and pledged its members to go 
wheresoever ordered, in or out of the State." 

On the evening of the nineteentli, Jessup, Newhall, Thompson and Wistar joined the 
Company as recruits, making a total of forty men. 

On the morning of the twentieth, requisition for ammunition, tents, &c. , was made upon 
the State Government, and promptly complied with, and orders were received to proceed by 
rail to Gettysburg. After a delay of four hours, transportation was furnished, and in half 
an hour afterwards the horses, wagons, equipments and men were in the cars. Much to the 
regret of the Company, Sergeant Maher was compelled by sickness to return to Philadelphia. 



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The Troop reached Gettysburg at 4 o'clock the next morning, and immediately dis- 
embarked, in the midst of a violent rain storm, and after coffee had been prepared and enjoyed 
by the men, the Command was mounted and marched into the town, when without much 
ceremony it quartered itself at the McClellan House; the horses in the stables and the men 
in the hay loft over them. The Company reported to Major Granville O. Haller, of 
the Seventh United States Infantry, who was in command of this post at the time. He 
at once ordered a detail of ten men to reconnoitre in the direction of Chambersburg. This 
party, under command of Cornet Randall, fell in with some of the enemy and captured three 
of their number. In the chase preceding the capture, private White's horse becoming unruly 
dashed him against a tree and broke his leg. 

This reconnoissance established the presence of a large body of the enemy between 
Williamsport and Chambersburg, and was therefore most valuable in its results. In the after- 
noon of the same day a rumor reached Gettysburg that a large body of the enemy were ad- 
vancing from the direction of Fairfield, which lies a few miles south-west of Gettysburg. 
The remainder of the Troop, under First Sergeant Rogers, was ordered out to reconnoitre. 

The detachment was accompanied by Captain Robert Bell and a squad of local cavalry 
from the Company under his command, as well as by Major Haller. About one mile east of 
Fairfield the party came up to a body of about one hundred and sixty of the enemy's mounted 
infantry, who were scouring the country for forage and plunder of every kind, particularly 
for horses, of which they were much in need. The main body of the enemy was stationed 
at a barn in the outskirts of the town, while detachments were out in various directions. 
Major Haller being satisfied with what he saw, returned in haste to Gettysburg, leaving the 
command with Captain Bell, who proved himself a brave, intelligent and conscientious soldier. 
Captain Bell, after taking necessary precautions to avoid surprise from the rear, advanced 
with care until within a half mile of the town, the command was then ordered to charge, which 
it did through the town and for more than a mile beyond, driving the enemy rapidly towards 
the mountain pass. Night coming on the Column was halted, and after a short stop in Fair- 
field, where it received many marks of kindness an'd loyal support, it returned to quarters. 

Gettysburg at this period was so much exposed that the Troop wagons were sent to 
Oxford, in the direction of York, so as to avoid their capture in case of a sudden advance 
of the enemy. At this time privates Conover and Welsh were detailed as orderlies to Major 
Haller. 

On the afternoon of the twenty-second, adetachment was sent out scouting in the direction 
of Cashtown, which returned at midnight. During the afternoon of the twenty-third, the 
Troop accompanied by Major Charles McLean Knox of the 9th New York Cavalry, operating 
with the army of the Potomac, was ordered to move rapidly toward Cashtown on the Chambers- 
burg Turnpike, in order to intercept a body of the enemy which had been seen moving across 
that road an hour or two before. The Troop reached Cashtown, a distance of eight miles. 



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after a sharp gallop, and it there ascertained that the enemy was some distance above that 
point near a tavern called Moonshours, in Newman's Gap of the South Mountain. Dark- 
ness coming on, a picket guard of ten men under Sergeant Brown was stationed at Cashtown 
while the rest of the Command returned to Gettysburg where it arrived after 9 o'clock. 
The order to unsaddle had hardly been obeyed when ' ' boots and saddles ' ' was again sounded, 
and the men remained up all night, momentarily expecting to see their pickets driven in. 

Detachments of the Troop patroled all the roads leading in the direction of the 
enemy, and those remaining at quarters kept their horses saddled day and night. 
The wagons having been sent to the rear as before stated, the men were largely depen- 
dent upon the patriotic kindness of the citizens of Gettysburg, who were unremitting in 
their generous attention, and it was never too late or early for them to have ready a meal for 
the Troopers on their return from scout or picket duty. Their sympathy and kind offices 
will ever be gratefully remembered. 

The Troop was kept on continuous duty, no member obtaining more than four or five 
hours sleep in the twenty-four, and this rest frequently broken by orders to "saddle up." 
For several nights the only rest obtained by the men was that got while lying in front of 
their horses, bridle in hand, ready to mount at a moments warning. 

The pickets at Cashtown had had frequent visits from the enemy, and the morn- 
ing of the twenty-fourth found the town and surrounding country alarmed and excited to 
the highest pitch, by the wild rumors which seemed to fill the air. The day was spent in 
scouting and relieving distant pickets. 

The next morning the men were ordered to horse at 6 o'clock, under instructions to pro- 
ceed on the Chambersburg turnpike beyond Cashtown, and if possible ascertain whether the 
movement of the enemy was only the audacity of his cavalry and mounted infantry, or 
whether it was an advance in that direction by General Lee's main army. 

Proceeding as rapidly as possible to Cashtown, a portion of the Troop was halted there, 
while the remainder in two detachments moved up the mountain road by Newman's Gap. 
The first of these discovered some of the enemy's pickets about two miles beyond the toll 
gate, and charged upon them, driving them into the main body, which filed across the 
road and delivered a volley, but fortunately without injury to any one. 

The object of the reconnoissance having been obtained, the advance was ordered to fall 
back upon Cashtown, where the Troop was divided into three detachments. One remained 
at Cashtown under Sergeant Reakirt, as the advance picket guard in that direction ; another 
under Cornet Randall proceeded south to Fairfield, where it was ascertained from what was 
believed to be reliable authority, that General Lee's army had left Waynesborough and was 
moving in the direction of Carlisle. This detachment reached Gettysburg quite late at 
night, having been in the saddle over fourteen hours and having ridden nearly thirty miles. 



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The third detachment under direction of Captain Bell, proceeded northwest from Cash- 
town to Arendtsville, and having patroled the mountain road north of that village, which 
connects with the Chambersburg turnpike on. the southwest, and upon which the enemy 
had been a few hours before, the detail took a southwesterly direction and crossing the 
Chambersburg turnpike, also the Fairfield road, it struck the Emmetsburg road several miles 
south of Gettysburg. The detachment did not reach this road until near midnight, and 
much of the route was through a thickly wooded country, through which no one could have 
shewn the way who was less familiar with the neighborhood than Captain Bell. After reach- 
ing the Emmetsburg road, the men remained on guard all night, and at daybreak proceeded 
to Emmetsburg, encountering on the way several of Milroy's men who had been driven 
from Winchester by the advance of Lee's army under General Ewell. 

The detachment returned to Gettysburg a few hours later, having been more than 
twenty-seven hours on active duty, over twenty of which were passed in the saddle, and dur- 
ing the whole time no sleep was possible. Much valuable information was obtained, and 
although the men were thoroughly exhausted they were in good spirits over the results of 
the scout. 

The morning had opened with a cold northeast rain, and the impression seemed general 
that no military operations would be undertaken on that day. The picket which had been 
out all night upon the Fairfield road returned at about ii o'clock," having been relieved by 
Captain Bell's command, and reported all quiet in that direction, although they had ex- 
changed shots during the night with a small advance body of the enemy. 

The men unsaddled their horses and were about to partake of some dinner provided by 
the citizens, when orders were received to saddle at once and report immediately at Head- 
Quarters, as the enemy was advancing rapidly on the same road our picket had traversed a 
very short time before. When the Troop had reported, it was ascertained that Major Haller 
commanding, had thought it prudent to appropriate private Welsh's horse, and move rapidly 
in the direction of York. The roads leading through the^own were soon crowded with the 
fugitives fleeing before the enemy, and all kinds of vehicles were improvised. It was truly a 
distressing sight to see the inhabitants hastening in terror with their families, driving before 
them the little stock that had been left them, and with one accord rushing and crowding 
toward the road to the Susquehanna. The cry of terror on every tongue was, " they come, 
the rebel comes!" 

The main body of the Troop remained in the town while a reconnoitering party, under 

direction of Major Knox, moved out upon the road upon which the enemy was advancing. 

As the head of the enemy's column came into the west end of the town upon the same 

street upon which the Troop was stationed, Major Knox sent an order that the Troop should 

move as rapidly as possible in the direction of York. 

As the Command reversed front, the enemy, several hundred strong, dashed rapidly after 



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it, and followed for some distance. Under instructions, the Company took the road to York 
by way of Hanover, which was an error in every particular, as the road taken was the longest, 
and in very bad condition owing to recent rains, and it also exposed the Command to capture 
within the first few miles, as the enemy were moving at right angles upon roads that intersect 
the Hanover road at several points. At one of these intersecting roads the rear of the Troop 
had barely passed, when a strong body of the enemy dashed out in pursuit. Had the Com- 
mand been a few minutes later in reaching this point, it is more than probable that the 
greater portion would have been captured, as the enemy outnumbered it more than four to 
one. The rear guard of the Troop exchanged shots with the enemy at rather close quarters, 
and one of the enemy was seen to fall from his horse, who it was after\vards ascertained 
was mortally wounded. 

The Troop reached York about g o'clock in the evening, so covered with mud that no 
individual Trooper was recognizable. Private Welsh, whose horse had been taken by Major 
Haller, was captured near Gettysburg, and paroUed by the enemy. 

The morning of the twenty-seventh found the streets of York crowded with fugitives and 
excited citizens of the neighborhood, all in the highest state of alarm, and still pressing 
toward Columbia, so as to place the protecting waters of the Susquehanna between them and 
the dreaded foe. At i o'clock, definite information was received that the advance of the 
enemy on his northward march had reached Hanover that morning at ten o'clock, and 
it was therefore certain that he could not then be far from York. 

The Troop was joined by Captain Bell's command, and ordered to move to the front 
and meet the enemy. About five hundred infantry joined in the advance, but after march- 
ing to the west end of the town, and reconnoitering the enemy's advance, orders were 
received from Major Haller to retreat. 

The infantry were hurried into cars stationed near by, and pushed on towards Wrights- 
ville, while the cavalry were ordered to fall back to the same point by the main road. Ar- 
riving at that town, the Company was ordered over the river to Columbia, where the men 
made themselves generally comfortable for the night. Here the Troop was joined by six 
men ; Barton, a member, and Barclay, Harrison, Morris, Newhall and Shaw, recruits. 

At I o'clock on the next day, (twenty-eighth,) the Troop was ordered to re-cross the 
bridge and proceed to the front, for the purpose of observing the enemy who was advanc- 
ing in force under General Gordon. Skirmishing soon commenced and continued for an 
hour or more, until the artillery of the enemy got an enfilading fire on the rifle pits, which 
had been hastily constructed on that side of the river, and they had to be abandoned, and 
shortly afterwards the order was given to fall back toward the bridge. Many members of 
the Troop were detailed as orderlies, and in that capacity carried orders to the detachments 
lying north and south of the main road, and while withdrawing the pickets and skirmishers 
from the front were frequently under fire, and in no instance was there any hesitancy in the 



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performance of any duty assigned them. Many of the infantry were captured, and the 
services of the Troop was of essential value in preserving order among the remainder who 
was much demoralized, particularly as the last of them were approacliing the bridge. 

' Under what is now believed to have been a mistaken policy, the military authorities 
determined to destroy this splendid bridge whicli, more than a mile long, spanned the Susque- 
hanna. Four Troopers under direction of Major Knox were detailed to perform the work, 
and the enemy was so near at hand that after exchanging shots with this detachment, he en- 
deavored to extinguish the fire, so little headway had it time to make, between the withdrawal 
of the last Trooper from the bridge and the arrival of the enemy at its western end. An 
effort was made to save the eastern end of the structure, but it was unsuccessful, as the flames 
advanced with great rapidity. The night was dark, and the sight presented by the confla- 
gration was one never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. 

R. G. Devereux, member, and Geiger, Kempton and Passmore, recruits, joined the 
command that evening at Columbia, also Dr. Alfred Zantzinger who had volunteered to act 
as surgeon. 

On thcTOorning of the twenty-ninth, from some movements on the part of the enemy, 
it was thought an attempt would be made to cross the river at an old ford. To meet this 
supposed danger, earth works were ordered to be thrown up upon the left bank. Many of 
the citizens being unwilling to work upon these defences, the Troop was ordered to force 
them into the trenches. The rumor becoming prevalent that the government was about to 
impress men into the service for six months or more, many of the able bodied fled to 
the fields, and hid in barns, or wherever they thought they could obtain a hiding place. 
Man)' amusing scenes took place, and many hale, hearty men, who would now be ashamed to 
own it, pleaded with tears not to be taken from their dear homes and helpless families. 

About noon it became evident that the enemy were falling back rapidly from Wrights- 
ville in the direction of York. The members of the Troop little dreamed; as they watched 
tlie movements of the enemy, that on that day Lee had called upon all his lieutenants to 
concentrate near Gettysburg to participate in the terrible struggle which soon took place, 
and the result of which practically sealed the fate of the Confederacy. It was in obedience 
to this call that Gordon turned his back upon the Susquehanna and hastily retraced his steps. 

Cornet Randall was appointed Provost Marshall of Columbia, and under his orders 
strict military rule was established. The sale of intoxicating liquors was prohibited, and all 
citizens and soldiers were required to be in their quarters at eleven o'clock at night, the 
Troop performing patrol duty. On the evening of this day Sergeant Grigg joined the com- 
mand. 

On the second of July a detachment of twenty-one men under Sergeant Randall, was 
ordered to cross the river in flat-boats and proceed in the direction of York, where it was 



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reported that some of the enemy's stragglers were committing depredations upon the inhabi- 
tants. On the same day the following men arrived from Philadelphia : Johnson, a member, 
and Diehl, Frame, Hubbell, McMurtrie, Neff, Rhodes, Smith and Tevis, recruits. 

On the third, a detail of four men under Sergeant Brown was orc^ered to conduct 
to Fort Delaware a number of prisoners recently captured, and the next morning the 
Troop was ordered to proceed to Harrisburg. Independence day was celebrated by march- 
ing through a drenching rain to that city, which was reached about ten o'clock that night, 
when -the command was reported to General Couch. 

On the next day the Troop received the glorious news of the great victory at Gettys- 
burg, which not only filled all loyal hearts with joy, but established permanently the power 
of the Government over its foes. In the evening the following recruits arrived thoroughly 
equipped : Allen, Bishop, Brooke, Diehl, Driscol, Eastwick, Miller, Rockhill, Riley and 
Guist, Trumpeter. . 

On the morning of the sixth, the detachment of twenty-one men under Sergeant 
Randall, which had been sent in the direction of York, returned, having performed import- 
ant service. The order was given to go into camp next morning, which was accordingly 
done in a grove two or three miles south of Harrisburg, owned by Senator Cameron. Here 
the command was regularly and thoroughly drilled, with the most gratifying results, until 
the fifteenth, when orders were received to report to General Cadwalader in Philadelphia, 
in view of a threatened riot, resulting from opposition on the part of some disaffected per- 
sons to a draft then being made. 

Camp was broken early on the sixteenth, and the Troop started for Philadelphia by rail, 
where it arrived about 6 o'clock in the evening. Having reported to the General, squads 
were detailed by his direction to report to the different Provost Marshals, and the main 
body was quartered in the armory. The Troop remained on duty until after the draft, 
when it was discharged under the following order from General Cadwalader : 

Special Orders. \ July 31st, 1863. 

No. 33. j 

I. The services of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry being no longer required 
for the defence of the State, the Troop is hereby relieved from duty at this post. 

Maintaining its State organization, as it has done, since the independence of the nation 
was established, in the accomplishment of which it took an honorable and distinguished 
part, the promptness with which this Troop responded to the call of the State for its de- 
fence in the recent invasion of its soil, the soldierly conduct of its officers and members in 
the recent campaign, and also in the service of the United States at the commencement of 
the rebellion, as on all former occasions where their services have been required through so 



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long a period of years, merit the approbation of the country, and gives assured confidence 
in their patriotism for the future. 

By command of Major-General Cadwalader. 

Cyrus Haldeman, Ass't. Adj. -Gen. 

The following flattering letter was received from His Excellency, the Governor. 

Pennsylvania Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, July 30th, 1863. 
"Sir:— 

For the present emergency, the First City Troop of Philadelphia under your command 
is no longer required for service in the defence of the State. It was for that purpose you 
tendered your services and you are now relieved. I take this occasion to present to the 
officers and men of the Troop, the thanks of the State for the promptness with which they 
tendered their services, when we were invaded by a Rebel army, and for the cheerfulness 
and gallantry with which they performed all the duties assigned to them. 

Very Respectfully, 
Cornet S. J. Randall, Your Obt. Servt., 

Commanding First City Troop. A. G. Cuktin." 

The following members and recruits served in this campaign : 



Samuel J. Randall, Cornet, 
M. Edward Rogers, ist Sergt., 
Edwin L. Reakirt, 3d " 
Robert E. Randall, 4th " 
John A. Brown, Jr., 2nd Corp., 
James West, Jr., 3d " 

Alexander Hemsley, 4th " 
Henry Ashhurst, Private, 

Peter A. Browne, 
William H. Caney, '■ 

Andrew C. Cattell, " 

Augustus M. Conover, " 
Wm. Stevenson D.^ivis, " 



Robert E. Gray, Jr., Private, 

Harvey B. Goddard, " 

William H. Howell, " 

Richard S. Mason, " 

Wm. Hall Mercer, " 

Wm. Harvey Merritt, " 

A. Loudon Snowden, " 

James D. Wagner, " 

John Lowber Welsh, " 

Edward W. White, " 
Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., " 

Joseph P. Wood, " 

William W. Wood, " 



William A. Borthwick,* Recruit, 
George H. Colket,* 
Persifer Frazer, Jr., 
R. SoMERS Hayes,* 
J. Morgan Jennison, 
Alfred D. Jessup, Jr.,* 
Gilbert A. Newhall,* 



T. Campbell Oakman,* 
W. George Oakman,* 
Theodore H. Reakirt, 
William E. Rogers,* 
L. A. Thompson, 
C. P. Williams, 
Jones Wister,* 



Recruit, 



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The following men joined the Command at Columbia and at Harrisburg between the 
27th of June and the 5th of July: 

John W. Grigg, sth Sergt., Richard G. Devereux, Private, 

Francis Barton, Private, J. Lindley Johnson, 

Harvey W. Allen, Recruit, Andrew Miller, Recruit, 

A. Charles Barclay,* " George Morris,* " 

Clement B. Bishop,* " Neff, 

Charles W. Brooke,* " George H. Newhall, 

Henry C. Diehl, " George Y. Passmore, " 

Thomas J. Diehl, " Charles M. Rhoads,* " 

Dennis Driscoll, " James Riley, 

William Eastwick, " Joseph B. Rockhill, 

Nathan G. Frame, " Edward H. Shaw,* 

Geiger " Henry G. Smith, " 

Alfred C. Harrison,* " Archer Tevis, 

Johnson HuBBELL, " Alfred Zantzinger, Vol. Surgeon , 

James C. Kempton, " F- W. Guist, Trumpeter. 

Francis McMurtrie, " 

Thirty (30) members and forty-one (41) recruits.' 

On the 28th of July, several gentlemen in behalf of the citizens of Philadelphia tendered 
to the Troop a dinner, to be given upon the Company's discharge from service. This 
highly complimentary invitation was accepted, and the dinner was given at the Continental 
Hotel on the evening of the first of August, and was in every sense most gratifying and satis- 
factory. Many prominent gentlemen in military and civil life were present. 

On the i2th day of August, the corner-stone of the new Armory, (21st and Ash 
Streets,) was laid with appropriate ceremonies. 

On the 23d of December the Troop, at the request of the authorities, paraded with 
other military organizations, to receive the members of the 29th Regiment of Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, who were coming home on a furlough of thirty days, having re-enlisted for the 
war. This public reception was tendered them in view of their patriotic action. 

The new Armory was occupied by the Troop for the first time, January 17th, 1864, on 
the occasion of the funeral of its fellow member. Major Robert Morris, Jr. , who died in Libby 
Prison, Richmond, from wounds received in action. The following month, the Company 
united with the regular and other military organizations in the city, in celebrating with ap- 
propriate ceremony the birthday of Washington. The Troop was assigned as an escort to 
Major-General Hancock, U. S. A., during the inspection of the military, and it afterwards 
took the right of the line in the procession. 

1 The recruits marked with an asterisk, were elected members after their return from this campaign. 



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In response to the proclamation issued by the Governor, requesting organizations to 
place themselves in readiness, for a call of the President for one-hundred-day men, the 
Troop met May 23d, and tendered its services. Colonel Russell, Adjutant-General of 
Pennsylvania, replied to this offer as follows: 

" That no call having as yet been made by the President of the United States for one- 
hundred-day troops, as was anticipated by the proclamation might be made, we have no 
authority to raise or accept any organization for that term of service." 

On the 1 6th of June the Troop escorted President Abraham Lincoln from the Conti- 
nental Hotel to the great Central Fair in Logan Square in aid of the Sanitary Commission ; 
having accompanied the President through the building, its members dined with him there, 
in company with many distinguished men from all parts of the country, Edward Everett of 
Massachussetts, presiding; and afterwards escorted the President to his hotel. 

Under a call for troops from the Governor to repel a raid of the enemy made into Mary- 
land, and wliich was threatening Washington, the Troop promptly volunteered its services 
on the 7th of July. On the next day the following telegram was received by Sergeant 
Rogers, who was temporarily in command of the Company. 

Hariusburg, July Sth, 1864. 
M. Edward Rogers, 

Commanding ist City Troop: 
Having no authority to accept your Troop as proposed, your telegram has been referred 
to Major-General Couch now here. 

Col. a. L. Russell, Adjt.-Gen. 

Endorsed, 
" Suppose could furnish rations and forage to independent scouts, whether in squads of 
two, three, or a company. 

D. N. Couch, Maj-Genl." 

On the following day, however, information was received by the commanding officer of 
the Company, that Secretary-of-War Stanton would not permit independent companies to be 
employed. The news from Baltimore and Washington becoming more alarming, the Troop 
again on the eleventh, resolved "to tender its services to the Government," and the next day 
Cornet Randall reported to the Company that "Mayor Henry and General Cad walader would 
accept the services of the Command if it would furnish its own horses and equipments." It 
was immediately resolved to tender the services of the Troop under the conditions named, 
and on the sixteenth the Troop was reported to Major-General Cadwalader thoroughly 
equipped and ready for duty. 

At this time the Sixth Corps was detached from the Army of the Potomac and transferred 
to the defences of Washington, and the enemy learning this, rapidly retreated through 
Maryland, and recrossed the Potomac. Under these circumstances the services of the Com- 



pany were not required. General Cadwalader therefore addressed to Cornet Randall the 
following letter: 

Head-Quarters, Philadelphia, July i6th, 1864. 
Cornet S. J. Randall, 

Commanding First Troop Philad'a City Cavalry: 
Knowing the sacrifices and inconvenience to the officers and members of the F. T. P. 
C. C. , which would result from the absence from their home at this time, I think it proper 
to say that the emergency under which they offered their services having apparently passed, 
it will not be necessary for me to avail myself of their offer at this time. I am duly sen- 
sible of the spirit and energy which this Corps has always shown in promptly coming forward 
when their services were needed by the country, and for their promptness on this occasion 
when so many of their number are absent in the field. I now through you render to them 
the thanks of the War Department. The property of the United States issued to you upon 
requisition approved by me can be turned into the proper officers. 

I am very respectfully your obedt. Serv., 

George Cadwalader, Major-General Commanding. 

On the 2 1 St of October the Troop attended, mounted order, the funeral of its late 
member, Major-General D. B. Birney. The remains were escorted with imposing military 
and civic display, to Woodland Cemetery, where they were deposited. 

On Saturday the 22nd of April, 1865, the Troop was called upon to perform the melan- 
choly duty of escorting the remains of the lamented Abraham Lincoln, late President of the 
United States, who fell by the cowardly hand of an assassin. The procession of military 
and civic associations was probably the largest that had ever moved in the city, and the 
Troop paraded, mounted order, forty-three members. Perhaps, during its whole history, the 
Company never participated in a more solemn or mournful pageant. The city was black with 
the emblems of mourning, and the streets were crowded with tearful women and sad-faced 
men ; all seemed to be overcome with grief and humiliation in contemplation of this appalling 
crime against society, by which the country lost a true patriot and illustrious citizen. 

The Troop acted as a guard of honor to the remains, which lay in state in Independence 
Hall, from Saturday evening to Monday morning. On Sunday the Hall was thrown open 
to such of the public as desired to take a last look at the body of the murdered President. 
Seeking to embrace this opportunity, the residents of the city and thousands coming by 
special trains from the surrounding country, gathered together that day around the old State 
House. From before dawn until after midnight all the streets leading to this point were 
crowded with dense masses of people, and the portion of the Troop which was stationed 
outside the building was frequently called upon by the police to assist them in holding back 
the throng which was endangering the lives of many and breaking up the double line passing 



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through the room where the opened coffin lay. Before ' o'clock on the following morning, 
the funeral procession had started to the Kensington Railroad Depot, the Troop riding in 
charge of the hearse, and at 4 o'clock the train bearing the honored remains left the city 
for New York, en route to their final resting place at Springfield, Illinois. 

On the loth of June the Troop was ordered out with the division to receive the veteran 
volunteers on their return to the city, and was detailed as an escort to Major-General 
Meade, who was in command. After the parade was over a collation was furnished tlie 
military at the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons, Front Street and Washington Avenue. 
At the conclusion of which the Troop escorted General Meade to his quarters at the 
Continental Hotel. 

At a meeting held October sth, a tassel from the Hessian flag captured by the Troop at 
Trenton, was returned to the Company by a descendant of an original member. 

On the 1st of November the Troop acted as a guard of honor to the remains of Colonel 
Ulric Dahlgren, who had been killed near Richmond, Virginia, and was this day interred at 
Laurel Hill Cemetery with military honors. 

Under the auspices of the " Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States," 
Washington's Birthday, in the year 1S66, was celebrated by appropriate ceremonies in the 
American Academy of Music, and the Troop, in full dress, participated by invitation. The 
occasion was marked by addresses from Bishop Simpson of the M. E. Church, and General 
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of Maine, and an original poem by Lieutenant-Colonel 
Charles Graham Halpine (Miles O'Reilly). After the ceremonies had been concluded, the 
Troop returned to the Armory, and dined together as is its custom on that day. General 
Chamberlain, Colonel Halpine and other gentlemen were present as guests on the occasion. 

On the 4th of July following, the Troop participated in the ceremonies attending the 
reception of the battle flags, which had been carried by the soldiers of Pennsylvania during 
the Rebellion. The presentation was made by Major-General George G. Meade, U. S. A., 
and the flags were received on the part of the State by Governor Andrew G. Curtin, at 
Independence Hall, in the presence of an immense concourse of citizens. All the available 
military force of the State was under arms, including representatives from all the veteran 
regiments. Major-General Winfield S. Hancock, U. S. A., was in command, and the Troop 
under Captain Fairman Rogers was detailed as his escort. The occasion was one of peculiar 
interest, and the day was one long to be remembered in the history of Philadelphia. 

In compliance with a request of Major-General Meade the Troop volunteered as an 
escort to Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the occasion of his visit to 
Philadelphia, on the twenty-eighth of August. The President was accompanied by Secretary 
of State Seward, General Grant, Admiral Farragut and other distinguished citizens, and on 
the following morning the Troop escorted him to Walnut Street Wharf, on his departure for 
New York, on his way to Chicago to lay the corner-stone of the Douglass monument. 



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On the twenty-fifth of September, 1867, by invitation of City Councils, the Troop 
participated in the reception of Major-General Sheridan, U. S. A., to whom the freedom 
of the city was granted. Upon this occasion the military were under command of Major- 
General Charles M. Prevost. 

In anticipation of an election riot, under orders from the General commanding, the 
Troop assembled at the Armory on the evening of October 13th, 186S, and marched, 
dismounted, to the Head-quarters of the First Infantry where the night was spent. 

On the thirteenth of April, 1S69, the Troop, for the first time in its history, gave a 
military ball, in the Foyer of the Academy of Music. This was attended by many persons 
'of our own and neighboring cities, and distinguished military officers from different parts 
of the country were present. 

The funeral of Admiral Charles Stewart, "Old Ironsides," who died at his residence 
in Bordentown, New Jersey, aged ninty-one years, took place in Philadelphia on the 
tenth of November, 1869. The body lay in state in Independence Hall, and was buried 
with military honors at Ronaldson's Cemetery, Tenth and Bainbridge Streets. The Troop, 
of which the illustrious deceased became an honorary member in 1821, paraded with the 
escort to the remains in the funeral procession. 

During the next year, the command was called upon to mourn the loss of John 
W. Grigg, who had been an active and useful member for nine years. He had recently 
held the post of First Sergeant, but had to relinquish active duty on account of declining 
health. Sergeant Grigg's funeral took place on the twenty-seventh of August, and was 
attended by the Troop in full dress, dismounted. It should be mentioned that Sergeant 
Grigg, by his will, bequeathed ten thousand dollars to the Company for the purpose of 
assisting in the extention of the Armory. 

Under orders from Brigade Head-cjuarters the Armory of the Troop was guarded 
during the day and night of October 12th, serious apprehensions being entertained that 
the public peace would be disturbed, owing to the violence of the political feeling 
manifested in different sections of the city. Threats had been made that an armed mob 
would seize tlie armories and obtain possession of the arms therein. Happily these appre- 
hensions were groundless, and the day passed without serious disturbance of any kind. 

On the evening of the 4th of April, 1870, the Troop assembled at the Armory and, by 
special invitation, accompanied Major-General Prevost and Brigadier-General Bankson and 
their respective staffs to the Academy of Music, where appropriate memorial services were 
had in relation to the recent death of Major-General George H. Thomas, U. S. A., justly 
esteemed one of the most virtuous citizens and illustrious soldiers that the republic has pro- 
duced, and in whose regiment the Troop had served in the " Campaign of i86i." 



In the autumn of this year the Troop was again called upon to mourn for the death 
of a valued miember, Harrison T. De Silver, who had been on the active roll for ten years ; 
but a few months before his death he had accepted a position on the staff of Brigadier- 
General Baxter, commanding the 2d Brigade, and was elected an honorary member of the 
Troop. His attachment for the Company manifested itself at all times in most generous 
and liberal contributions ; he had subscribed ^2,500 to the bonds issued by the Troop, for 
the purpose of building the Armory erected in 1S63 ; he was afterwards the first to propose 
a surrender of the bonds, and was largely instrumental in having nearly all of them pre- 
sented as gifts and canceled ; and, by his will, he bequeathed ten thousand dollars to the 
Troop. This legacy, and the one of like amount received from Sergeant Grigg, were 
expended in the erection of an Armory, built in 1S74. Major De Silver's funeral took 
place on the thirteenth day of September; the Troop, in full dress, escorting his remains 
to Laurel Hill, where the interment took place. 

The granite monument erected over tlie remains of tlie late Captain Thomas C. James 
was formally dedicated on the seventh day of December of this year. The active, non- 
active and honorary members of the Troop assembled in the Armory, in citizens' dress, 
and proceeded in carriages to Laurel Hill Cemetery, accompanied by a large number of 
citizens, personal friends of the deceased. The ceremonies of unveiling and dedicating 
the monument were of a most interesting character. Mr. E. L. Reakirt, chairman of 
the committee, having charge of the work of erecting the monument, made the follow- 
ing remarks: 

" Captain Rogers and gentlemen of the Troop : We are once again assembled at Laurel 
Hill. How often in the last decade has it been our lot to bear hither to his last resting- 
place the remains of a beloved comrade who had fallen on the field of battle, or died from 
disease contracted, or of starvation and ill-treatment, in rebel prisons. If our successors 
shall, with a true soldierly instinct, have any envy that to us and our times fell the lot to 
add to our history by active service in the field, how little will they remember the bitter 
price we have paid for it. How little can they appreciate in a time of peace how sad it is 
to be called so often to lay in the dust and pay the last honors to a beloved and cherished 
comrade. 

" Of all these sad events, surely the saddest was when we followed the remains of our 
beloved commander to this, his last resting-place. We are carried back to the month of 
January, 1S63. You will recollect, comrades, how each day, as we met each other, the 
question trembled on our lips which we almost were afraid to ask, lest what we knew to be 
inevitable had already taken place, and that our beloved captain was no more. I will not 
ask, — for I know you all recollect our feelings when it came. It seems but yesterday that 
our great loss befell us. We brought him here. We buried him. We returned to our 



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homes, and we put on paper and in our archives the expressions of our grief and sorrow 
and profoundest sympathy with those whose ties of blood were severed ; and when, on the 
second of the next month, we held our usual meeting in the Armory, the movement was 
then inaugurated to erect a monument to our beloved friend and hero. It met a universal 
and spontaneous assent from all our hearts. We felt some little honor could still be done 
his memory, and we could transmit to those coming after us a lasting memorial of the 
love and honor we entertained for him. 

"To a committee of three was delegated this most honorable task; and, as chairman 
of that committee, -I am here to-day to ask you to witness the result of our labors, and to 
formally accept this monument as your tribute to the name and fame of Captain Thomas C. 
James. The simple, rugged granite, better than marble, typifies the endurance and stead- 
fastness of his' character ; and the military emblems, cast in imperishable bronze and 
modeled after the uniform he wore so many years, and after the arms he used so bravely 
and so well, will tell to future times that a soldier sleeps beneath. 

"I have a few further particulars to relate connected with the erection of this 
monument, which will be of interest to you. Your committee, \yhen it assumed its 
labors, knew, alas ! that hundreds of other loving hearts and hands had been busy in 
similar tasks,— in erecting memorials to their fallen dead. We thought we could readily 
select and combine from the labors of others a suitable structure, but we found that in 
almost every instance the military insignia had been cut out of marble, and the more 
elaborate the design and delicate the outlines the greater was the tendency to decay 
from the action of the elements. They learned that a military emblem had been lately 
cast in bronze (and the first one of a truly artistic character in this country) for the 
monument of a brave soldier. Major Newhall, and that the artist was still here. They had 
previously called to their assistance a gentleman well known in our city for his artistic 
taste and ability, who, from beginning to end, has taken such interest in our project that 
the committee cannot omit mentioning his name.- This gentleman, Mr. William Struthers, 
ordered the granite shaft. It was soon made, brought hither, and set in place. A 
portion of the accoutrements and the arms of the Troop were grouped, and one of Phila- 
delphia's best sculptors, Mr. J. A. Bailly, modeled them in plaster. But here came a 
stoppage. The artificer in bronze had left the country. After some delay the committee 
sent photographs of the models, with dimensions, &c., to one of the largest foundries in 
the country, but soon found it was incompetent for the undertaking. A long delay 
ensued, and more than once your committee met and entertained the idea of changing 
their cherished design ; but at length they were rewarded for their delay. The artist, 
Mr. Bureau, returned to this city, bringing with him a brother equally skillful. The 
model was placed in their hands and speedily finished. The letters for the inscription 
were soon cast and fastened to the pedestal, and the monument declared completed. 



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"It will be pleasant for you to hear that the committee have submitted their plans to 
the relatives of Captain James at the different stages of the work, and all that had been 
done has met with their entire approval. In conclusion, your committee has only to say 
it trusts, upon a closer inspection, you will find the monument worthy of the name and 
fame of him whose memory it is designed to perpetuate. ' ' 

Captain Rogers then, on behalf of the Troop, accepted the completed monument, and 
formally dedicated it to the memory of Captain James, with the hope it might ever stand 
a grateful acknowledgment of his generous, manly qualities, and gallant services as captain 
of the First Troop and as colonel of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry ; he reviewed the 
record of Captain James' connection with the company, his successive service as private, 
corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, and captain, — from the time he became a member in 1838 
until his death in 1863. 

In conclusion, Captain Fairman Rogers, who was Captain James' immediate successor, 
addressed those present saying: "Owing to the unavoidable absence of Mr. Thomas 
Smith, who for many years had been intimately associated with Captain James as an 
officer of the Company, he had been most unexpectedly asked to do what Mr. Smith 
could have done much better. 

"He felt he was only echoing the sentiments of all who, like himself, had served under 
Captain James, when he said that his unvarying kindness and gallant, soldierly qualities 
had endeared him to all. His name has been most closely connected with almost all the 
history of the Troop which is within the recollection of those who had assembled to 
dedicate this monument. We all love to remember him in the old, 'times of peace;' 
and still more dear is he to our memories in the latter days of his life, when, in the 
actual service of his country, he made manifest to all those noble traits of character we 
always knew he possessed. It was mainly owing to his energy and personal exertions that 
the Troop was accepted in the three months' service, as there was at first an indisposition 
at Washington to employ any cavalry except that of the regular army. Through his 
untiring exertions — aided by our old friend and fellow-member, General Patterson, whom 
I see present to-day — a special order was issued from the War Department, and the Troop 
was mustered into the service of the United States. Thus, mainly through his labors, the 
Troop has the honor of being the first cavalry company mustered into the service of the 
government during the Rebellion, and the only one during the three months' campaign. 
When Captain James entered the service of the United States for the second time he 
was of an age when most men prefer the comforts of home, and consider themselves 
entitled to them. He, however, with a noble and self-sacrificing spirit, prefered beyond 
comfort and ease to serve and suffer, and, as it proved, die in defense of the perpetuity and 
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The ceremonies ended with these remarks of Captain Fairman Rogers. 
On September 226., 1871, the Troop paraded with the Division to take part in the 
unveiling of the monument erected in Fairmount Park to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. 

On October 7th, 1872, the Troop authorized the appointment of a Centennial 
committee, "to advise and submit plans, collect funds, and in general terms, devise ways 
and means for the celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Company; and, in 
December, the following gentlemen were announced as composing the committee : — 
M. Edward Rogers, George Cadwalader, Thomas Smith, J Francis Maher, Robert E. 
Randall, A.. Loudon Snowden, John A. Brown, Jr , Joseph F. Tobias, William C. Baker, 
James J. Macdowell, John Hockley, Jr., Frederick W. Fotterall, Myer Asch, George Zinn 
and Rudolph Ellis. From this period until the Centennial celebration this committee 
was actively engaged, not only in the erecting of the Armory, but in all other arrangements 
connected with the important event. The work entrusted to the members composing the 
committee was admirably accomplished, and too much praise cannot be bestowed upon 
them for their unceasing and successful efforts. 

On November nth, 1872, the funeral of Major-General George Gordon Meade, 
U. S. A. — an honorary member of the Troop — took place in this city. His spotless 
personal character, genial and manly nature, but above all the inestimable services rendered 
by him to the Republic, had endeared him to the hearts of all who respect honor, cherish 
virtue, or love their country. On the occasion of his funeral, the President and his 
Cabinet, the Governors of States, and other distinguished soldiers and citizens, by their 
presence attested the loss the country had sustained in his death. The military display was 
one of the finest ever witnessed in the city. The remains were taken from the residence 
of the deceased to St. Mark's Church, Locust Street above Sixteenth, from thence to Fair- 
mount Park, where they were placed on a steam-boat and taken to Laurel-Hill Cemetery. 

On this occasion the Troop acted as the guard of honor from his residence, and 
accompanied the remains to the point of embarkation. In the Park the scene was solemn 
in the extreme. The Troop was drawn up in two lines, and between these lines the coffin 
was borne, accompanied by the mourners and the distinguished soldiers and citizens who 
accompanied the remains to the grave. On a rising piece of ground, thousands of people 
were assembled ; below them were long lines of soldiery. From the time the procession 
entered the Park until the remains were borne to the boat, minute-guns were fired ; 
and, as the boat left the wharf, three volleys were given by a firing party of United States 
soldiers. The Troop paraded, dismounted ; and, owing to the prevalence of a horse epi- 
demic of an alarming character, it is remarkable that the only horses in the military portion 
of the procession were those drawing the caisson on which the coffin was borne, the charger 
of the deceased, and one ridden by General Drum, U. S. A., who was in command. 



On January 20th, 1873, ^ detachment of the Troop, under Cornet Snowden, went 
to Harrisburg to participate in the ceremonies connected with the inauguration of Major- 
General John F. Hartranft as Governor of the State, and returned the evening of the 
next day. 

On the third of Marcli following, the Company, under command of Captain Rogers, 
with full ranks, went to Washington to attend the second inauguration of President Grant. 
This was the first occasion, as far as known, that the Troop had formed a part of the 
military display usual on such occasions. Many regiments and detached companies were 
present from distant States, as were also the Annapolis and West-Point Cadets. The Boston 
Lancers and the Troop were the only cavalry organizations present from a distance ; 
the Troop acting as a personal guard to the President. After participating in the cere- 
monies, the command, with some invited guests, dined at its quarters (Willard's Hotel), 
and late that evening started for Philadelphia. 

On the fourth of July of this year, the Troop, under orders from Division Head- 
quarters, participated in the ceremonies attending the formal transfer by the Park Com- 
missioners to the U. S. Centennial Commission of the ground set apart for the erection 
of the buildings, "in which is to be held an International Exhibition of Arts, Manufac- 
tures, and the products of the soil and niine." On this occasion, the President of the 
United States was represented by Hon. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, 
and General Belknap, Secretary of War, and there were present other gentlemen of the 
National and different State Governments, the Park and Centennial Commissions, and city 
governments. After the presentation of these gentlemen to the Mayor of the City at 
Independence Hall, and the delivery of an address of welcome, the Troop escorted them 
to Fairmount Park, where it joined the other military in the review which took place at 
the close of the ceremonies. As this may be considered, frorii all its surroundings, as the 
first formal and public act in connection with the Centennial Exhibition, in which all the 
nations of the earth will participate in celebrating a hundred years of republican govern- 
ment, it must always possess peculiar interest. 

On the first day of December following, the Centennial committee of the Troop 
submitted a report to the effect that after mature deliberation it had unanimously concluded 
that the extension of the present Armory to Twenty-first Street, and the erection of a 
building as near as possible after the plans already presented and adopted by the Company, 
was the most rational and proper mode of celebrating its approaching Centennial. The 
committee at some length discussed the importance of the contemplated improvement, and 
urged upon all the duty of united and harmonious action in prosecuting a work which, 
when completed, would be not only honorable to the present members, important and 
valuable to their successors, but eminently significant as a monument erected at the close of 



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an hundred years to commemorate the sacrifices and services rendered to the country, by 
the founders of tlie Troop, and those who followed after them. This report was unanimously 
adopted, and the committee instructed to proceed with the work. 

On January 26, 1874, the Troop, in compliance with an invitation, attended in 
uniform, and acted as floor-managers, at the Washington Assembly held at the Academy 
of Music, given under the auspices of the Women's Centennial Executive Committee 
of the United States Centennial Commission. Major-General Provost and staff, as well 
as representatives from several military organizations of this and other cities, were present, 
and the ball was a brilliant success. 

On July 4th, 1874, the Troop assembled at Tji o'clock, A. M., at the temporary 
Armory, and, under command of Lieutenant Maher, marched to Twenty-first Street, for 
the purpose of laying the corner-stone of the new Armory. Here the members were 
addressed by Cornet Snowden in the following appropriate remarks : 

"Gentlemen: — We have assembled on this the morning of an historic day, for the 
formal purpose of laying the corner-stone of. our new Armory, and of dedicating the 
building to its appropriate uses. 

"A hundred years, perhaps the most important in the history of the world, are em- 
braced within the life of the organization of which we have the honor of being members. 
Originally formed by patriotic men, for honorable and active service, it has perpetuated 
itself in usefulness, in honor, and in the good-will of all men until the present hour. 
Antedating the Declaration of Independence, it has participated in every great struggle 
through which the country has passed, and has also at all times cheerfully responded to 
the calls made upon it by the State or municipal authorities. Instituted in the most 
generous and patriotic spirit, it has unselfishly, at all times, maintained and conserved what 
was best and most honorable in the community and the country. For the first three or four 
years of its existence, with but brief periods of relaxation, its members were in the saddle, 
performing whatever duty was assigned them. Men of wealth, they left home and its com- 
forts, to endure the hard privations incident to the Revolutionary struggle. They crossed 
the Delaware with Washington; served through the campaigns of Trenton and Princeton, 
and were the last soldiers to leave the east bank of the Delaware river on the return of the 
army. They also participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and in nearly 
all the skirmishes that took place before and after the occupation of this city by the British. 
That they performed the service assigned to them intelligently and faithfully, we have 
the highest assurance, not only in the fact that they were given the extraordinary privilege 
by Washington of passing in and out the American lines without the countersign, an honor- 
able confidence bestowed upon no other body of men ; but also, in the words of this same 
illustrious commander, transmitted to Captain Morris, in the Letter of Discharge at Morris- 
town, January 23d, 1777. 



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"Those among us to-day, who have been connected with the Company for many years, 
must expect, in the course of events and of nature, to give way to the younger men who are 
pressing fast in our footsteps. Let us all strive, whether old or young in the Troop, to 
transmit to our successors the name and fame of this venerable organization in the same 
bright and untarnished condition in which it was received by us. 

"I cannot close these ceremonies without an appropriate allusion to the men who 
have done so much within a recent period to give a permanent and enduring home to the 
Troop. From its organization, until 1863, the Company occupied various quarters. As the 
population moved westward, it migrated with it. It was a wanderer, without any local 
habitation it could call its own. 

" In 1863, a period in the history of our country that will ever be remembered, as sym- 
bolical of patriotism and self-sacrifice, a few gentlemen impelled by admiration and love for 
an prganization that had done so much, and had contributed from its ranks so many gallant 
officers to the armies of the Republic, met together and resolved that a permanent Armory 
should be erected for its use and dedicated to its honor. The leading spirit in that move- 
ment, who contributed largely of his means then and subsequently, has been gathered to his 
fathers, leaving as a dying testimonial a legacy, the fruit of which we will reap in the present 
building. Another of the active spirits of that time who contributed generously towards 
the project has also passed away, leaving a large legacy for a like purpose. The third of 
that trio of generous and disinterested spirits still lives to aid us by his counsels and means, 
and when his time shall come, which we all hope will be in the long future, he will also 
leave a substantial legacy, as a proof that in death, as in life, he and his companions held in 
the highest esteem the honor and interests of this organization. We owe a debt of gratitude 
to Harrison T. De Silver, John W. Grigg and William C. Baker, which it will be difficult 
for us or our successors to liquidate. 

"There were other men whose generous contributions assisted in the erection of the 
first Armory. I cannot, however, give you all their names. Contributions to the present 
Armory have been made by many members at a sacrifice, but by all with the greatest cheer- 
fulness. On the 17th of November next we will celebrate in this new Armory of the Troop, 
the one-hundredth anniversary of its existence. We look forward to that occasion with the 
most earnest emotions and highest anticipations. From this great altitude of one hundred 
years, those who follow us will be able to carry on to the future, without fear of evil or 
accident, this institution, freighted with sacred memories and heroic achievements. When 
the Armory is completed and dedicated we will have done our part in erecting a memorial 
which will be as enduring as the granite upon which its foundation rests. But let us not 
forget, gentlemen, that the most indestructible element which has entered into and which 
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to duty of the men who composed its membership. So long as this spirit continues so 
long will this organization exist. But if it should decay or pass away, then will the days 
of its life be numbered. The aliment and the element of its life for the past century has 
been the regard for personal honor among its members, devotion to duty, and reverence for 
the past history of the Company. It will die in a single day if these be withheld. I am 
glad that in my day this love for the past, this devotion to the present, and striving for the 
future, has been as marked as it ever could have been in the past. And I am more happy 
still to feel that, in the young hands and hearts that are about me to-day, the future of 
the Troop can be entrusted with perfect safety." 

When Cornet Snowden had concluded, Mr. William C. Baker, Treasurer of the Com- 
pany, deposited in a metallic box, coins, papers, muster-roll, by-laws, list of subscribers to 
Armory fund. Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Pennsylvania, and 
other appropriate articles. The box was then closed and sealed up, and deposited in the 
corner-stone ; a cap-stone was then placed thereon firmly cemented. When this had been 
done. Lieutenant Maher proposed the toast, "The corner-stone of the Armory; may it 
endure as long as the Republic," which was drunk, by all present, in champagne from a 
wassail-cup presented by Quarter-master Hockley. 

As the Centennial of the Company drew near evidences accumulated on every side of 
the interest taken in the event, not only by the members of the Troop, but by the public 
generally. Beside the very gratifying action of the military authorities, which will be 
noticed hereafter, the Councils of the City passed, unanimously, at their first meeting in 
November, the following preamble and resolutions : 

"IVIiereas, The seventeenth of the present month is the one hundredth anniversary 
of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, the oldest military organization in the 
United States, having a continuous history, and — 

" Jl'licrcas, This Company has served the State and Nation with fidelity and devotion, 
having been during the Revolution attached to Washington as his body-guard ; crossing 
the Delaware with him on that memorable winter night ; and participating with the patriot 
army in the glorious battles of Trenton and Princeton ; receiving for their services the 
personal thanks of the Commander-in-Chief; and — 

" ll'Viereas, During all the subsequent history of the country, whenever it was threatened 
by foreign power or domestic foe, the Troop has always been loyal and true in defending 
its honor and integrity ; and — 

" Whereas, It is expected that, on the occasion of its Centennial, citizen soldiers from 
our own and neighboring States will visit the city to participate in the parade and festivities 
incident thereto; therefore — 

" Be if resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, that 
the hospitalities of the city be extended to the visiting troops, and that the flags on all the 



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City Buildings be displayed, and that the citizens be requested to do the same in honor 
of the interesting event." 

On the twelfth of the same month, the Mayor transmitted the following message to 
the Councils, with the accompanying letter from Major-General Prevost : 

"Mayor's Office, November 12, 1S74. 
" To the Select and Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, — 

"Gentlemen: — I transmit herewith an invitation from Major-General Prevost to your 
honorable bodies, to review the troops of the First Division National Guards of Pennsyl- 
vania and visiting organizations, on the occasion of the parade in honor of the Centennial 
Anniversary of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, on Tuesday next. I have 
designated in front of the Mayor's office. Chestnut and Fifth Streets, as the place for the 
review. "I am, respectfully, 

" W. S. Stokley, Mayor." 

"Head-quarters First Division National Guard of Pennsylvania, 

November 4, 1874. 
" Hon. W. S. Stokley, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. 

" Sir: — I have the honor to invite yourself and members of the Select and Common 
Council to review the troops of this division and visiting organizations, on the occasion 
of the parade in honor of the Centennial Anniversary of the First Troop Philadelphia 
City Cavalry, on the 17th inst., at such a place on Chestnut Street, west of Fifth Street, as 
may be selected by yourself 

" I am, very respectfully, yours, etc., 

"Charles M. Prevost, Major-General." 
In pursuance to orders the Troop assembled at the new Armory on the morning of 
Sunday, November 15, 1S74, and, attended by a band, marched to St. Peter's Church 
through the following streets : — Twenty-First, Walnut, Eighteenth, Locust, Sixteenth, 
Spruce, Fifth, Pine and Third Streets. The officers occupied Washington's pew, and the 
rank and file filled the old square pews of the middle aisle. After the performance of the 
service appropriate to the day the Rector, the Rev. Thomas F. Davies, preached the 
following sermon : 

I Kings, chap, ii., vers, i and 2. 

'Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon, 
his son, saying : 

'I go the way of all the earth ; be thou strong, therefore, and shew thyself a man.' 

" The charge which the grand old Warrior- King of Israel gave to his illustrious son 
received no little of its weight from his own strength and nobility of character. He asked 
his son to be no more than he has been himself, to be strong and to show himself a man. 



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"Despite his faults, which were many, and his sins, which were great — though dwelling 
in an obscure region and living in a rude age — David stands forth as one of the grand 
figures not only of his own era and country, but of all time and the whole world. And 
why? Because he possessed what the common judgment of mankind has recognized as the 
essential elements of greatness. He was great in intellect, in character, in achievement. 
He fulfills one's ideal of strength and manliness. He was as far removed as possible from 
all effeminacy and irresolution ; from all littleness and meanness. None was ever braver 
than he in confronting the foes of his country and his God ; none more heroic in endurance 
of privations and persecution and most cruel wrong ; and yet with this bravery and heroism 
there was a generosity of soul, a true manliness of character, which endear him to us as we 
read how he treated his implacable enemy who lay sleeping and powerless at his feet ; or 
of his lamentation, so thrilling with its pathetic beauty, over that enemy's death ; where 
all remembrance of wrong and enmity is blotted out, and where he thinks only of the 
'mio-hty' that are 'fallen,' and of the beauty of Israel slain upon her high places. We 
need not be surprised at his power as a leader of men, if we recall his magnanimity, his 
regard for the rights and lives of others, as witnessed by that grand act of his when he poured 
out before the Lord the water of the well of Bethlehem, for which he had so sorely longed; 
exclaiming, as he did it: 'Be it far from me, OLord, that I should do this; is not this the 
blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore, he would not drink it.' 
But above all is he endeared to the Church of God throughout the world, by those Psalms 
which are the common heritage of Jew and Christian; which breathe an inspiration that 
has been felt in every age ; which lift the heart by their majestic strains of adoration to 
loftiest heights of worship and praise and devotion ; which tell of struggles and doubts and 
fears which have been repeated in the experience of every heart that has sought to rise to a 
higher and nobler life than that of earth ; which speak in voices of penitence and contrition 
that have found an echo in myriads of burdened souls; which are instinct on every page 
with patriotism and piety and reverence for God. 

" I know full well that there is another side to this picture. There is the record of 
temptation yielded to, of sin committed, of sacred rights invaded; but it only goes to show 
that, after all, he was a man like ourselves, where at best the gold of strength and manliness 
is mingled with the dross of weakness and earthly passions. But then there is also the 
record of hearty repentance ; of profound contrition ; of lowly confession ; and, at last, 
of God's most gracious pardon. 

"Said I not truly then that David's charge i;o his son gains no little of its weight from 
his own greatness of nature and character? I think there never has been a day when more 
than now the exhortation has been needed, 'Be thou strong and shew thyself a man.' 

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is neither to nurture manliness nor strength. There are forces at work, with the increase 
of luxury and splendor of living and great accumulations of wealth, which, unless carefully 
watched and guarded against, will go far to sap the foundations both of national and indi- 
vidual strength. I have no sympathy with that unreal and hollow declamation which 
inveighs against wealth as mere dross, and the possession of it as a wrong against the rights 
of some one else. Few, I think, really, in their hearts, believe anything of the kind. Still 
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the strife for its possession often betrays a man into 
selfishness and forgetfulness of those high principles of honor and integrity which are the 
foundation of all true manliness : that nothing more belittles and dwarfs the soul than to 
glory in mere accuinulation : we may not forget that the truest dignity of man is not in 
display, nor luxurious ease, nor selfish gratification, nor sensual indulgence, — but is to be 
brave for the right ; firm to principle ; steadfast in truth ; pure in heart, — in a word, to ' fear 
God and keep His commandments.' A man like this is of some real use to the world. 
He will not have lived in vain. He will serve his generation while he lives, by giving help 
to those who need it ; by showing kindness, courtesy, and respect to all, — traits which in 
all ages constitute a part of the character of the true gentleman ; he will be held in honored 
and grateful remembrance when he dies. The corrective of the evil to which I have 
adverted will be found in remembering the Divine standard of judgment, which is, that a 
man is to be estimated by what he is, and not by what he may chance to have. 

"The charge of David to his son brings to our notice one of the laws of God's govern- 
ment of the world. 'I go the way of all the earth ; be thou therefore strong, and shew 
thyself a man.' 

"It is the law which governs the transmission of labour. The principle underlying 
that law is that there is a work for every man to do who is born into this world ; that he 
is to do it with his might, and when the time comes, is to hand it over to his successor. 

" There is something both of sadness and mystery in the fact which we so constantly 
witness, that, no sooner does a man gain the fullness of his powers — no sooner does he 
develop to the utmost his capacity for systematic thought or profitable execution — than 
presently his strength begins to droop, his vigor to wane, his day to be darkened by the 
evening shades, until at last it closes in that night wherein no man can work. It shows us 
that no one, however great his gifts or grand his achievements, is necessary to the world; or 
to the fulfillment of the purposes of Almighty God; but it also shows that when one rank 
falls, those which are behind must press forward to fill the vacant place, and bear their part 
in the conflict. The burden of duty, dropped by wearied hands, must be taken up by those 
that are younger and stronger, until the time comes for them in turn to be relieved. The 
agents change, but the work goes on forever. 

"But in this case before us is something far more than the ordinary transmissions 
of labor from one to another. It is a kingly father handing it over to a kingly son. The 



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I and the thou, therefore, are most emphatic. ' / go the way of all the earth ; be thoii 
therefore strong, and shew thyself a man." 

"It is no contravention of that which I have already laid down as the Divine rule of 
judgment, that a man is to be estimated by what he is and not what he has ; or, to extend 
it further, by what his father may chanced to have been before him, to say that the sons or 
the successors of those eminent in station, and distinguished by their deeds, have an especial 
burden of duty laid upon them. They are not only to maintain and keep unsullied their 
personal honour, but they are to bear up and to bear on without reproach the name and the 
dignity which they have inherited. 

"The inheritance of an illustrious name has sometimes proved a real misfortune. Let 
it come to one of moderate gifts and comparatively feeble powers, and it suggests an 
inevitable, even if an unspoken comparison, which disparages what otherwise might have 
commanded credit and high consideration. But no earthly spectacle is more grand ; 
nothing among transitory human distinctions is more to be coveted than ancestral dignity; 
nobly maintained and even enhanced by those of succeeding generations. Honor to those 
who have gone before,— reverence for the sleeping dead, filial piety,— unite in enforcing 
and emphasising the command, 'Be thou strong and shew thyself a man.' 

"The subject which I have presented to you this morning seems to me in harmonious 
keeping with an occasion which we must all regard as one of very unusual interest. It will 
be one hundred years ago on Tuesday next, that, in a dark and threatening time for the 
American Colonies, twenty-six gentlemen— foremost in position in this city— associated 
themselves as the First Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry; and one of their first acts was 
to come to this Church, in which the Father of our Country was for a period an habitual 
worshipper, to ask the blessing of Almighty God. From that hour I believe no one will 
gainsay the truth of tho^e words which, at a later day, were penned by one of their Captains 
when reporting for duty:— 'With pleasure I tell you that, when the laws and government 
of this happy country require defence, the First Troop of Philadelphia Cavalry wants but 
one hour's notice to march.' They proceeded at once to the field, and were honored in 
being chosen to be the body-guard of Washington himself Thenceforth the history of 
this Troop becomes a part of the history of America, and presents a record of which every 
American may be justly proud. While the names of Trenton and Princeton are remem- 
bered, their services will never be forgotten, nor will a grateful country cease to bear in mind 
their valour and patriotism, as exhibited in the war of 1812, and in our late unhappy civil 
strife, whose memories of sorrow, mingled with glory, are still fresh in every heart. Upon 
their muster-roll, from the beginning until now, may be read the names of those who have 
given honour and dignity to this city of their residence. It is a grateful recollection that, 
in their history, charity has gone hand-in-hand with valor and self-sacrifice, for the entire 



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pay accruing to this Troop for services during the whole Revolutionary struggle became, 
by their gift, a part of the endowment of the Pennsyvania Hospital ; and that the im- 
mortal Washington bore witness to their services in such words as these : — ' I take this 
opportunity of returning my most sincere thanks to the captain and the gentlemen \vho 
compose the Troop, for the many essential services which they have rendered their country, 
and to me personally, during the course of this severe campaign. Though composed of 
gentlemen of fortune, they have shown a noble example of discipline and subordination, 
and, in several actions, have show a spirit of bravery which will ever do honor to them, 
and will ever be gratefully remembered by me.' 

" I am very glad, my brethren, to welcome you again to this old church, whither 
those who preceded you have been wont to come, before going forth into the field in defence 
of their country. Let me remind you, in the words of our great English poet, that — 

' Peace hath her victories no less renown'd than war;' 
and of that saying of the wisest of mankind, in which he affirms that the greatest of 
victories is the conquest of one's self: — 'Better is he that ruleth his spirit than he that 
taketh a city.' I pray that you may heed that charge; which now, upon your Centennial 
Anniversary, seems to be repeated in most solemn and thrilling tones by all the gathered 
voices of those — your members — who have fought their fight and finished their course, 
'My sons, be strong and shew yourselves to be men.' May you be strong for the right ; 
strong against temptation ; strong in your love of country, and in your reverence for God ; 
and may you all listen to that command which now comes to you from the great Captain 
of Salvation, through the least of His servants, bidding you fight manfully under His 
banner, and show yourselves His steadfast soldiers unto your lives' end." 

At the conclusion of the service the Company left the church and returned to the 
Armory by Third, Walnut and Twenty-First Streets. 

At the Armory a handsome lunch was served at two o'clock, and at three o'clock the 
Company marched to St. Clement's Church, at Twentieth and Cherry Streets, where a 
special military service was held in celebration of the Troop's Centennial. Passing up the 
centre aisle, in column of twos, the two lines faced inwards and came to a parade rest, 
remaining in that position during the whole of the service. The band took its place in 
the organ-loft, and, with the organ, performed the music of the service. The church was 
crowded with the friends of the Troop, and the whole scene was most impressive. The 
Rector, the Rev. Theodore M. Riley, addressing the Troop in a manner most appropriate 
to the occasion, said : 

"We pause for one moment, gentlemen, in the midst of these sacred ceremonies, in 
order that I may congratulate you upon the auspicious event which has brought you before 
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"During the present week your honorable organization will have completed an 
existence of a hundred years, — full of usefulness and full of honor. Older than the 
Republic itself, you bore a conspicuous and courageous part in the perils and struggles of 
its birth. Called through succeeding years to surround the person of the Chief Magistrate 
at the solemn ceremonies of his inauguration, — offering yourselves to your country at all 
times of her danger, preserving among yourselves, in peace as in war, a high ideal of the 
fype of manhood and gentlemanhood which your country expects you to illustrate — you 
have acquired an enviable fame as a body of chivalrous soldiers and gentlemen, — Esio 
perpehia. 

" Had I time I should like to set before you the nobleness of military self-sacrifice — 
. one of the most sublime forms of moral heroism. I restrain myself, however, and shall 
only say that, with the tradition and history of your illustrous body, you must more than 
ever have at heart its glories, its honor, and its highest dignity. 'Noblesse oblige'' is as 
true in republican America as in the old days of the knights and soldiers of kingly France, 
who stood by your side a century ago. You must still aim to illustrate that beautiful maxim 
by all that gives grace to the man, the gentleman, and the soldier. Receive, gentlemen, 
my congratulations, with the expression of the hope that as your history is as old as the 
Republic, so it may as honorably continue whilst the Republic stands ; and that when 
you lay down the helmet and the sword on earth, you may each exchange them for the 
crowns which await all who fight a good fight and keep the faith. God's blessing always 
go with you." 

Dr. Riley was assisted by the Rev. Charles Miel, a priest ordained in the Church of 
France, and formerly Chaplain pro. tetn. to her late Majesty the Queen of the French, 
whose presence, as remarked by the Rector, "was like an echo to the old French sympathy 
for the Army of America." At the conclusion of the service the Troop returned to the 
Armory, where it was dismissed at five o'clock. The weather on this day was remarkably 
fine, and the whole programme was carried out in the most successful manner. There 
were present seventy-eight members in uniform. 

On Monday evening the members of the Company assembled in full dress, at seven 
o'clock, to receive their friends on the occasion of the formal opening of the Armory. 
The roof and walls of the Riding -Hall were profusely decorated with flags, lent by 
order of the Navy Department, and the tan-floor was laid out as a garden, with growing 
plants, fountains, statues and walks. A long table, bearing an ample collation, was spread 
in the centre of this garden, and the whole was brilliantly lighted by hundreds of gas jets. 

Shortly after eight o'clock the large building was entirely filled with a brilliant crowd 
of ladies, civilians, and officers in uniform. The old silk standard, in its glass case and 
established in the fire-proof specially built for it, at the south end of the banqueting-room. 



was the centre of attraction. A large number of distinguished officers of the Army and 
Navy were present, together with military guests from other cities. The entertainment 
closed about midnight, having been in every respect most enjoyable. 

On the next day, Tuesday, November 17th, at twelve o'clock, noon, the Troop 
assembled at the Armory, mounted, to take part in the parade of the division, ordered in 
honor of the event. General Prevost had also extended an invitation to the New Jersey 
troops, which was accepted. 

Moving down to Broad and Carpenter Streets, by Chestnut and Thirteenth Streets, the 
Troop awaited the signal for the movement of the column, which was somewhat delayed 
by difiRculty in getting the New Jersey Battery across the river with sufficient rapidity. As 
soon as the line was formed the Troop passed along its front, from left to right up Broad 
Street, being saluted as it passed, and took its position at the head of the column, which 
then irioved forward in the following order : 

Major-General Charles M. Prevost and Staff. 

First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. 

United States Marines, Brevet-Major Dawson. 

Girard College Cadets, Major Oliver. 

Sixth Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey, General W. J. Sewell. 

Battery B, National Guard of New Jersey, Captain Emmor D. French. 

Eighth Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey, two Companies (colored). 

First Brigade, First Division, National Guard of Pennsylvania, General Lyle Commanding. 

Artillery Corps, Washington Greys, Captain L. D. Baugh. 

Keystone Battery, Captain S. B. Poulterer. 

Wiccacoe Legion, Captain J. P. Denney. 

Second Regiment of Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Neff. 

Sixth Regiment of Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel John Maxwell. 

Second Brigade, First Division, National Guard of Pennsylvania, Gen'l Ballier Comm'g. 

First Regiment of Infantry, Colonel R. Dale Benson. 

Third Regiment of Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Rodgers. 

State Fencibles, Captain John W. Ryan. 

Fourth Provisional Battalion (colored), Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Burr. 

At Locust Street the column past in review the Governors of Pennsylvania and 
New Jersey, who, with their staff-oificers, and a large number of military and civil guests, 
occupied a stand which had been erected on Broad Street opposite to the Academy of 
Music. The parade passed through Chestnut, Third, Market, Eleventh, Arch and Twenty- 
First Streets, to the Armory of the Troop. The whole route was profusely decorated with 



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flags, bunting and banners, and the windows were crowded with people. When the head 
of the column reached Tenth Street in marching down Chestnut and again in coming up 
Market Street, the chime of St. Stephen's Church was rung, and the bells of Christ 
Church also chimed as the parade was passing Third and Market Streets. At the Mayor's 
office the Mayor and other civic dignitaries were on the steps and received a marching 
salute, while the State- House Bell sounded one hundred strokes. 

When the head of the column reached the Armory, the day, which had been bright 
and pleasant, began to be overcast and the darkness of a November afternoon was coming 
on. The General and his Staff rode directly into the building and the Troop following 
formed in single rank along the North and South walls of the Riding Hall, the band 
of the First Infantry taking up its position near the entrance. The entire column then 
marched through, entering by the main door and going out the door at the west end. 

The decorations, which on the previous evening occupied the floor, had been removed, 
but the roof and walls were still draped with their flags and the numerous lights contrasting 
with the growing darkness outside gave a dazzling brilliance to the interior. This march 
of the troops through the Armory was the most eff'ective scene of the whole day. 

After passing through, the parade was dismissed and the visiting military marched to 
the Skating Rink, at Chestnut Street Bridge (temporary armory), where they partook of a 
collation provided by the liberality of the merchants of Philadelphia and arranged by the 
Centennial Committee of the Troop. 

The Troop was dismissed at five o'clock, and the members met again at the Armory at 
eight o'clock in the evening to take part in the final act of the celebration of the day, 
the Centennial Banquet. 

In the main room of the Armory three long tables were spread. Captain Rogers 
occupied the head of the centre table with Cornet Snowden opposite. Lieutenant Maher 
the head of the west table with Lieutenant Randall opposite, and ex-Captain Fairman 
Rogers the head of the east table with First Sergeant Wilson opposite. The follow- 
ing invited guests were present :— John F. Hartranft, Governor, and James W. Latta, 
Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; Joel Parker, Governor, and William Striker, Adjutant- 
General of New Jersey; Major-General Mott and General William J. Sewell of the National 
Guard of New Jersey; Major-General Charles M. Prevost and Colonel G. H. North of the 
National Guard of Pennsylvania; Captain Lewis D. Baugh, Washington Grays; Colonel R. 
Dale Benson, First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania; Major Samuel N. 
Lewis, A. D. C, First Division, National Guard of Pennsylvania; Commodore George H. 
Preble, United States Navy; General N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts; General John P. 
Bankson; A. T. Goshorn, Esq., of Ohio, Director-General of Centennial Exhibition; 
Hon. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Thomas A. Scott, Esq., President Pennsylvania 



Railroad Co.; Rev. Theodore M. Riley. D.D., St. Clement's Church; Morton 
MclVIichael, Esq.; A. J. Drexel, Esq.; George W. Childs, Esq.; James L. Claghorn, Esq.; 
William Struthers, Esq.; Neilson Brown, Esq.; Edwin T. Eisenbrey, Esq.; W. Harrison 
jEisenbrey, Esq.; Paris Haldeman, Esq.; John Tucker, Jr., Esq.; John Lowber Welsh, Esq. 

Honorary and non-active members not in uniform: — Major-General Robert Patterson; 
Major-General George Cadwalader; e.\-Lieutenant Thomas Smith; Colonel Joseph F. 
Tobias, A. D. C, National Guard of Pennsylvania; Captain Emmor D. French, Battery 
B, National Guard of New Jersey; Samuel L. Shober. 

Honorary and non-active members in uniform: — Charles L. Leiper, AVilliam H. 
Taggart, M. D., Robert Thompson, Jr., ex-Captain Fairman Rogers, Emlen N. Carpenter, 
Frederick W. Fotterall, Rudolph Ellis, Captain Robert P. Wilson, U. S. A., William T. 
Lowber, Harrison Smith, Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., P. Frederick Goddard, R. J. C. Walker. 

With the active members there were altogether seventy-seven present at the dinner 
in the uniform of the Troop. 

After the cloth had been removed. Captain M. Edward Rogers arose and in a few 
appropriate remarks congratulated the members of the Troop on the occasion which had 
called the present distinguished company of soldiers and citizens together. He expressed 
the conviction that in the three days of ceremonies, attending the Centennial Celebration, 
nothing had been omitted that would have added interest or dignity to the important 
event. On behalf of the Command he returned sincere thanks for the hearty sympathy and 
cordial co-operation extended by citizens of all classes, in the ceremonies which had 
attended the one hundredth anniversary of the organization. In concluding he requested 
all present to fill their glasses and drink to the first regular toast of the evening : 

" The day we celebrate — The one hundredth anniversary of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry." 

Cornet Snowden was called upon by Captain Rogers to respond on behalf of the 
Troop, which he did in substance as follovi's : — 

"Captain Rogers, Comrades and Gentlemen : As the junior officer of this command 
I am highly honored in being called to respond to the toast which has just been announced. 
I feel no less embarrassed than honored, as the call comes to me without an hour's warning 
in which to make some little preparation, in justice to the sentiment and this honored 
company. 

' ' Those members of the Troop who have shared with me an active membership, 
extending several years into the past, will also share in the profound gratification we 
all feel this evening. For many years we have looked forward with anxious solicitude, 
and made earnest preparation, for this Centennial -Celebration. Many who hoped and 
labored with us have not been permitted to join in these festivities — they have taken up 



their line of march to that 'other country,' and have left upon our shoulders the 
duty and the honor of this occasion. 

"I take this opportunity, on behalf of the gentlemen of this Command, to return to 
our municipal authorities,— to the Major-General commanding this Division and the officers 
and men under him ; to the citizen soldiers of New Jersey ; to the representatives of the 
National Government, whose troops united with our National Guard in the imposing 
military display witnessed in this city to-day ; to all who have aided, whether much or 
little, in celebrating, in an appropriate manner, the One Hundredth Anniversary of this 
Company's organization,— I return sincere, heartfelt thanks. The recognition of this 
occasion by the representatives of the National Government, by the States of New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania, and by our municipal authorities, as well as the earnest and enthusiastic 
support we have received from our fellow-citizens, attest, in an unmistakeable manner, that 
the services of an hundred years are not forgotten by the people. 

" In our country, where there are so few 'old things,' where all is so new, young and 
vigorous, any institution or organization that ante-dates the present century, becomes an 
object of respectful veneration, especially if it has in any way been identified with the early 
and patriotic struggle of our fathers for the maintenance of human rights, and the estab- 
lishment of republican institutions. To this cause may be attributed the public manifesta- 
tion of sympathy and respect which was accorded this organization to-day by the citizens 
of our own and neighboring States, who united as citizens and soldiers in a grand military 
pageant, which will be ever as memorable in the annals of the city, as it was gratifying 
to us as Troopers. 

"The First Troop was organized nearly two years before Independence was declared. 
Its organization at that period was remarkable and significant, as exhibiting the temper of 
the times. It was not the rash and inconsiderate action of young and thoughtless men, 
carried away by their own passions and the excitements of the hour, that founded this 
institution. If it had been, it would have, perhaps, had an ephemeral existence, and long 
since have been forgotten. On the contrary, those who founded the Troop were of 
Philadelphia's most prominent citizens— among them were men of wealth, prudent men of 
business and leaders of society. No hasty act from such men would be expected. 
Knowing full well the consequence of the step they took, they deliberately organized 
the first military company- in America, raised for the defense of the Colonies, and in this 
act pledging their honors and their all to the maintenance of the rights of man imperiled 
by the arbitrary acts of a despotic government. 

"From 1774 until the close of the revolutionary struggle the men who founded the 
Troop, and their successors, maintained in the field and elsewhere, the same indomitable 
spirit which organized it in the beginning. In 1775, one year before the Declaration of 



Independence, the Troop carried that old tattered ensign hanging on yonder wall, which 
we prize so highly and preserve with so much care, and which is significant and remarkable 
in this, that it gave to the National flag the thirteen stripes as typical of the unity of the 
Colonies as an organized political power. Our records abundantly prove that, from the 
beginning, the men who composed the Troop believed in and labored not for defense 
alone but for the independence of the Colonies. 

"This was the highest and best thought of the times, to which the people and a 
hesitating Congress slowly worked their way, until, by its formal declaration, they 
committed the country to the logical results of the war, and thus secured that hearty co- 
operation which was essential to success. As to the value of the services performed by the 
Troop in the revolutionary period, we have abundant evidence on every side. The written 
declaration of the great commander of our armies, as well as contemporaneous history, 
attest that the gentlemen who left the refinements and comforts of life to share the fortunes 
of their fellow-countrymen in the field bore themselves as became men. 

"They cro.ssed the Delaware in the advance with Washington on that inclement night 
preceding the surprise and capture of the enemy at Trenton, and were the last to return 
across the river. They were at the second and more decided action at Trenton, and 
shared with Washington the victory at Princeton. They were not alone at the battle and 
sharers of the victory, but, more significant than all, were with Washington at that 
critical moment when his courage and self-possession turned the tide of battle and 
drove the enemy from the field. At Brandywine, under old General Armstrong, they 
were in the advance in all the preliminary skirmishes and gave the first authentic informa- 
tion of the change in the enemy's disposition of his troops, which information was of the 
highest importance to our army. They participated in the doubtful contest at German- 
town. For two years, during the winters of 1776 and 1777, the members were constantly 
in the saddle, performing cheerfully such duty as was assigned them. From that period 
until the present the Troop, I am happy to say, has preserved its ancient and honorable 
record. It has at no time hesitated to respond when called upon to assist in preserving 
the peace of the city, the honor of the State, or the unity of the Nation. 

" In 1794, when armed insurrection in the western portion of our own State threatened 
the permanency of the infant Republic, the Troop proffered its services and marched 
beyond the Alleghenies. In 1814 it again took the field against its old foe, in the ' Second 
War of Independence.' In 1838, with other troops from this city, it marched to Harris- 
burg to guard the Sovreignity of the State against mob-violence and embryo treason. In 
1844, when the peace of the city was imperiled by religious fanaticism and intolerance, 
when arson and murder went abroad at noon-day, and our constituted authorities seemed 
powerless, the Troop was prompt in offering its services on the side of law and authority. 



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and during all that dark and disgraceful period maintained its character for devotion to 
duty and efficiency in service. 

" In more recent times, times whose dark shadows have not yet fully passed away, the 
Troop had an opportunity of again vindicating its love of country and willingness to 
sacrifice for the public good. In 1861, when the integrity of the Union was threatened 
and its flag insulted, this organization was among the first to tender its services to the 
Government. General Cameron, then Secretary-of-War, is present to-night and I know 
how much pleasure it affords him to tell of the patriotic promptness with which the men of 
this Command sprang to arms when the Government called her sons to the front. From 
the beginning the Troop has rendered valuable service in its organized capacity, but has 
been especially valuable as an example and incentive to others, in times of danger, to 
organize and arm for the public defense. Besides this, it has been of great service to the 
Nation in educating and preparing for positions of command men whose value to the 
country can not be over estimated. In this particular work the National Guard of the 
different States is performing valuable service. 

"In this connection it may be interesting to state that whilst the Troop, as a 
Company, participated in the 'three months service' and in the ' Gettysburg campaign,' its 
great service to the country was in giving from its rolls sixty-eight officers, ranking from 
"captains to major-generals, whose patriotism, skill and devotion to duty was attested on 
every battle-field of the Republic. Some of them are with us to-night, but, alas, how many 
sleep their last sleep! We call the muster-roll, but how many make no response ! Silent are 
the lips of James, who for so many years was our honored commander ; our comrade 
Birney is not here; the gallant Ash, who fell with his face to the foe, is missing from our 
table! Where are Kuhn, Taggart, Davis, Robert Morris, and the others who should have 
been here ? Alas, they have fought their last fight ! they sleep their long sleep. May they 
sleep well ! They answer not our roll-call to-night ! They answered the call of duty and 
perished in defense of the Union and liberties of their country. As no man dies too soon 
who dies for his country, we will shed no tears over them, but hold them up as bright and 
illustrious examples to be emulated and followed. 

"In celebrating this Company's anniversary we stand to-night on the rounding period 
of an hundred years. Slowly but surely the dial is marking the last moments of the century. 
Soon the bell on Independence Hall will ring out its knell over this peaceful city. To- 
night this organization presents a century of service well performed, and each and every 
member, who has shared in the service, participates in the honor. 

"Standing on this vantage-ground, how much there is in the retrospect that should 
fill each American heart with pride and thankfulness. When our predecessors established 
the Troop, Philadelphia had a population under thirty thousand, whilst Pennsylvania had 



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less than three hundred thousand inhabitants! The -thirteen feeble Colonies, sparsely 
settled, separated by almost unbroken forests, divided oft-times by jealousies, were 
just beginning to gird themselves for a contest with the most formidable power on 
earth. 

"Weak in every apparent essential to success, except in the unyielding spirit of the 
people, we behold them preparing for the unequal contest. What a contrast with to-day ! 
Looking down the march of the century we behold these Colonies, aided by Divine Provi- 
dence, triumphant in the great struggle and crystalized into a noble Government, full of 
promise to the oppressed of all lands. Each succeeding year has added strength and power. 
Our old enemy is again humiliated. The fields of Mexico add fresh laurels to our arms. 
Over domestic violence and rebellion the genius of the Republic is triumphant. We have 
extended our borders from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf and from Ocean to Ocean. Cities 
have sprung up as if by magic. Our own beautiful city has now a population of eight 
hundred thousand, and Pennsylvania has over three millions five hundred thousand souls 
within her borders. The thirteen Colonies are represented by thirty-seven great and 
powerful States. The hum of industry fills the land. On every hand may be seen pros- 
perity, peace and power — all that is essential to the greatness and happiness of a people. 

"The dark blot of human slavery — tolerated by our fathers, and that some of their, 
descendants fostered and endeavored to perpetuate — has been forever wiped out. The 
Declaration of Independence has a significence and logic in its utterance which it had 
not ninety-eight years ago. Glorious indeed are the fruits of the century ! Its labors 
and triumphs have done more to elevate and ennoble humanity than any of its predecessors. 
In the great work of enfranchising and elevating the people, our own country has led the 
van. We have given to theoretical republicanism a practical solution. We have destroyed 
the glamour of kingly authority, and laid strong and deep, for all time, principles that we 
believe to be essential to the peace and prosperity of mankind. If the retrospect is inspiring 
and glorious, the out-look to the future is equally full of hope and promise. As those who 
have preceded us bore the burden imposed upon them with manliness and honor, so I 
trust and believe our successors will perform whatsoever duty is assigned them, remem- 
bering always that their highest duty is to their country, and that sacrifices for her are to 
be cheerfully made. 

" For one hundred years this organization has existed, because its members have 
been men whose personal honor was pledged, not only in its behalf but in the preservation 
of order, and in the maintenance of public peace. The brotherhood of its membership 
brings together about this table to-night men of three generations, to attest their love and 
devotion for an institution which has well earned the confidence of those in authority, and 
the respect of the people. Is it too much to hope and believe that, in the new era upon 



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which we have now entered, this old Troop, freighted with the sacred memories of the 
past century, will still be found true to the spirit of its founders, and true to the best 
interests of the Republic? I feel assured that the future can be safely trusted to our 
successors. 

" In concluding, I desire to congratulate the Command upon its present enviable status. 
In the number of its active members ; in thoroughness of equipment ; in efficiency of 
drill ; in attention to duty — it is perhaps in advance of any previous period since its 
organization. In this beautiful and commodious armory, which was erected as an enduring 
memorial to mark the close of a century, there is manifested a spirit as enterprising 
and generous as could have actuated the membership of the past." In retiring from 
active membership I feel assured we can take with us the consoling reflection, that in our 
day this venerable organization was not permitted to retrograde in usefulness or degenerate 
in character; but that it was transmitted to our successors in a condition of efficiency, as 
great, if not greater, than at any period in its past history. 

"Thanking you, gentlemen, for the warm enthusiasm with which the toast was 
received, and for the courtesy with which you have listened to me, I will give way to those 
who are to follow." 

Lieutenant Maher announced the next toast: 

" The memories of Captains Ross, Butler, and James." 
Drunk standing and in silence. 

In response to the next toast : 
" The United States of America." 

General Cameron, being called upon, said : 

"The first time I met the gentlemen of the Troop was in the year 1824, during 
Lafayette's visit to this country. A Dauphin County Troop of horse, of which I was 
Captain, marched from Harrisburg to this city to participate in the grand military and 
civic ceremonies attending the distinguished Frenchman's reception. The First Troop 
met my command, on its approach to the city, at the Falls of Schuylkill, where they served 
a handsome dinner and afterwards escorted the command to their quarters in the city. 
From that time to this I have admired not only the splendid uniform, which I think, after 
having seen the most showy in Europe, is the handsomest in the world ; but I particularly 
admire the one feature, peculiar and marked in this command, and that is, that its rank 
and file is composed of gentlemen. From the beginning it has been so— composed 
originally of the first men of your city ; their successors have at all times equalled the 
founders— and I am sure from what we have witnessed this day, and now see at this splendid 



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banquet, we must be convinced that its officers and men are not only gentlemen in the 
ordinary sense of the word, but such as can at all times command the respect and confi- 
dence of any community in which their lot may be cast. So long as the spirit that has 
maintained this organization for an hundred years exists gentlemen will fill your ranks, 
and the proud distinction be yours of being the model command, not only of the Common- 
wealth but of the Country. 

"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be Secretary of War when the great rebellion 
that devastated our country for years, first opened its guns on Fort Sumpter, and among 
the many bright and cheering things that lit up the general gloom of that trying period, 
nothing gave me more gratification or assurance as to where the heart of the country 
was, than the prompt and manly tender of service on the part of this noble organization. 
The number of men composing the ranks was small, in comparison with the hundred 
of thousands who tendered their services, but I felt then that their example and patriotic 
action was worth thousands of troops to the Government. This old Troop in the past 
has always been true to patriotism and country, and I confidently believe it will ever 
remain so. As a Pennsylvanian I am proud of it. As an American I point to its record 
as a triumphant vindication of the volunteer system, upon which Republics must rest for 
support in times of trial and danger. 

To the toast : 
" Pennsylvania and New Jersey, — always united in defense of the integrity of the Nation." 

Governor Joel Parker, of New Jersey, responded in substance as follows : 

" No two States of the Union are more closely bound in interest, or more intimately 
connected in history, than Pennsylvania and New Jersey. , They were settled about the 
same period, and the early settlers on each side of the Delaware were from the same 
portions of the Old World. They brought with them the same manners and customs. 
Their institutions and laws spring from the same source. The same policy towards 
the aborigines of the country was pursued. Before Philadelphia was founded, William 
Penn gave to West Jersey the code of laws and system of government which he 
subsequently introduced on this side of the river ; the foundation principles of which were 
political liberty and freedom of conscience in matters of religion. Our forefathers 
mingled in friendly intercourse and their descendants have cultivated the same spirit of 
amity. 

" In the Revolution, New Jersey and Pennsylvania fought side by side on almost 
every battlefield of the war. This military organization, the Centennial Anniversary 
of which we are now celebrating, was at Trenton and Princeton. Your predecessors, 
upon those fields, sought danger and death at the cannon's mouth to drive the invaders 



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from the soil of New Jersey, and the Jersey line in turn defended, at Germantown, the 
homes and firesides of Pennsylvania. 

"No soldiers gained greater distinction, at Trenton, in 1776, than the Philadelphia 
Troop of Light Horse. The complimentary order, issued by Washington at the close of 
that campaign- — the original of which I am informed is in possession of the Troop — proves 
the estimation in which the organization was held. This order, dated at head-quarters, at 
Morristown, N. J., on the Twenty-third day of January, A. D. 1777, signed by the 
Commander-in-Chief, acknowledges the many essential services the Troop had rendered to 
their country, and the noble example of discipline and subordination and the spirit of 
bravery exhibited in several actions. In this connection it is proper to observe that the 
■ members of the Philadelphia Troop were generally men of fortune and, like Washington, 
would not accept compensation for services during the revolutionary war, but donated the 
whole of their pay to the Pennsylvania Hospital. 

"It is related that, after the battle of Trenton, Washington dispatched one of the 
Philadelphia Troop to convey the news of the victory to Congress. This trooper had been 
among the foremost in confronting the dangers and enduring the fatigues of that decisive 
engagement and was in no condition to make fast time. By some means the news reached 
Congress before he arrived, and upon his appearance in the hall. Dr. Witherspoon, in the 
midst of the hilarity that prevailed, moved an appropriation to present him with a pair of 
spurs. This motion was not intended as reproof, nor did it in the least question the 
prowess of the soldier, or the organization he represented ; for, generally, they who are 
foremost in battle are least active in spreading the news of victory. 

"These associations endear your Troop to Jerseymen. I see on the tableware, 
specially decorated to adorn this magnificent banquet, as well as on the labels of the wine, 
imported to add spirit to the entertainment, the words " Trenton " and " Princeton," and 
I confess to you that with such surroundings I feel at home. In this connection I thank 
you for the honor of an invitation to this entertainment, and for the respect and attention 
to me and to my staff who represent New Jersey on this occasion. And to the Governor of 
this Commonwealth, now present, I tender thanks for the very courteous invitation to 
review the troops who to-day participated in the parade in honor of your Troop. I assure 
him and you, that the people of my State will appreciate such a token of respect offered to 
them in the person of their representative. 

"Asking pardon for this digression, I remark that Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in 
the late rebellion, acted together in defense of the Nation. Their sons fought side by side 
in many of the fiercest conflicts of that terrible struggle. When the flag was fired upon 
and the integrity of the Union threatened, both these States offered men and means to the 



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Government, nor did they cease their support or withdraw their sympathy from the 
national cause so long as there was armed resistance to the laws. 

"This is the first of a series of centennial commemorations which will take place 
within the next few years, and is only preliminary to the great Centennial Celebration of 
our National freedom, which will be held in this city in 1876. Although much has occurred 
to temporarily discourage those who have in charge the arrangements for the great Exhibi- 
tion, yet, through the liberality of the citizens of Philadelphia, the patriotic enterprise has 
been placed upon a firm foundation. It is a subject for regret that Congress has thus far 
turned a deaf ear to the application for material aid, and that the State Governments seem 
to manifest but little interest. Thus far New Jersey is the only State, except Pennsylvania, 
that has manifested any sympathy in the Centennial movement. I have faith that in due 
time the general Government and the States will awake to its importance ; — but, whether 
they do or not. New Jersey will do her duty in this regard — and, as of yore, will stand by 
Pennsylvania. 

" Philadelphia is the place where the Celebration should be held. The very building 
in which the immortal Declaration was signed, and from which it was promulgated, is 
standing ; and there are so many other places in and near this city of revolutionary interest, 
around which patriotic associations cluster, that no other place for the Centennial Anni- 
versary should be thought of. 

" The manner of the proposed commemoration is proper and fitting. The roar of 
artillery, military parade and martial music for a single day, although necessary adjuncts, 
are not sufficient for the one hundredth anniversary of American Independence. The 
proposition of a son of Massachussetts, who bears an honored name, to observe the great 
event in our history by setting off a few roman candles and fire-crackers is absurd and 
insulting to those who have the matter in charge ;— and I know that my friend on the right 
from that State, where the revolution commenced, and where the spirit of liberty first 
manifested itself in armed resistance to oppression (General Banks), does not approve 
sentiments such as those uttered by a citizen of his State, to whom I have alluded. The 
mode of observance adopted by Congress, and now being carried forward by the members 
of the Centennial Commission, comports with the dignity and power of the Nation. An 
exhibition of the products of the soil, of the hand and of the mind, from all sections of this 
vast country in comparison with those of other and older nations, will demonstrate to the 
world what a hundred years of free government has done for a people. It seems strange to 
me that any one could hesitate as to the propriety, nay, the necessity of such a celebration ; 
and that any one could oppose, or be lukewarm, is doubly strange. A people so dead to 
patriotism as not suitably to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of 
their nation would probably not have enough vitallity to last another hundred years. I 



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have faith in the patriotism of the people of this country. I have no doubt that the 
Centennial Anniversary will be held in 1S76, in the City of Philadelphia, on a scale 
which will exceed any World's Fair that has ever been held. I am satisfied that it is 
destined to be a grand success, both as a National and International Exhibition, and 
I would not be surprised if, in future years, States and individuals now apparently 
indifferent, should contend for the honor of originating and contributing most to the 
patriotic object. 

" In contemplating the progress of the nation during the century now drawing to a 
close, it is gratifying to reflect that the great dangers by which the infant Republic was 
surrounded have passed away. The question of slavery — fastened on us, both North and 
South, before we gained our independence — was a constant menace to our peace and 
union. That question, as well as the alleged right of secession, has been settled, never to 
be re-opened ; and the Nation will commence the second century of her career with 
brighter prospects of perpetuity than was promised a hundred years ago. 

" Come what may, in the language of the sentiment to which I have been called 
upon to respond, Pennsylvania and New Jersey will continue to be united in defense of the 
integrity of the Nation." 

Governor Hartranft, on the conclusion of Governor Parker's remarks, arose and said: 

" Gentlemen of the First Troop: I need not tell you the pleasure I feel at being 
present with you and your distinguished guests on this memorable occasion. All gatherings 
of the National Guard are enjoyable occasions to me. This is especially so, when, uniting 
with you in celebrating one hundred years of continuous service, I remember the noble and 
honorable record made by yourselves and your predecessors. As the Governor of this 
Commonwealth I feel a pride in knowing that, in the organization of the National Guard, 
there is represented by your Troop that which is best in the American soldier. The long list 
of honorable names borne on your rolls, and the service they have rendered their country, 
call for our respect and reverence. I desire, as Governor, to direct my efforts towards 
increasing the efficiency of the National Guard of the State. This is a matter that rests 
heavily upon me. In looking across that stream, so memorable in the history of your 
organization, as the obstacle gallantly overcome in your victorious onslaught on Trenton, 
we see a State, whose honored Governor is with us to-night, rich in the possession of a 
citizen soldiery efficient in every way. New Jersey, as she always has been, is one of the 
first States of the Nation, in having an efficient National Guard. The bearing, marching 
and admirable discipline exhibited by the troops from that State, who participated in the 
parade in your honor to-day, show care and nurture on the part of the State for her 
volunteer soldiery. I shall deem it a matter of great pride if, before my official term shall 



expire, the National Guard of Pennsylvania is placed on the same favorable footing, in 
regard to State support, as is now enjoyed by the troops of New Jersey. I think we can 
promise our friends from a distance, that, in the coming Centennial, when the troops 
of the different States are assembled in this city, it will be found that the National Guard 
of our State will compare very favorably with that of any other. I reiterate with unfeigned 
pleasure the sentiments of Governor Parker, in trusting that there may never be any 
alienation between our two States. As the troops of each, in the past, were ever found 
side by side in maintaining the union and honor of the country, so our citizens to-day are 
found side by side in promoting and carrying forward the arts of peace, and particularly 
the great Exhibition in honor of the National Centennial." 

The next toast : 

" Philadelphia — ever alive to the call of duty and patriotism." 

Was responded to by Major-General George Cadwalader, the oldest member of the 
Troop present. 

The next toast : 
"Our citizen soldiei-y — the Nation's bulwark." 

Was fittingly and beautifully spoken to, by Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, of 
Massachusetts. 

In response to the toast : 

'* The Army and Navy." 

General Mott, of New Jersey, being called upon, responded as follows: 

"Captain Rogers and Gentlemen of the First Troop: In response to your toast, and 
the kind and complimentary manner with which you have been pleased to call upon me to 
reply, I can only return to you my sincere thanks. 

"Your gallant Troop is closely identified with the history of this great city, and I 
have been exceedingly gratified in witnessing, to-day, the strong hold which this veteran 
Corps has upon the esteem of your fellow-citizens. Your Centennial Anniversary has 
been, in all respects, a complete success, and the encomiums bestowed upon you have been 
won by well-merited and continued services. I trust your organization may become more 
and more efficient, and that all the veterans, as well as recent recruits, may take renewed 
pride in cherishing and maintaining your ancient and well-earned record. I call upon my 
friend. General E. B. Grubb, as a New Jersey member of your Troop, to do fuller justice 
than I can to the toast." 

To which Private Grubb responded in a few remarks. 



In response to the toast — 

" The National Centennial— may it represent the art and progress of all nations; but, above all, may 
it bring together our own people, from all sections of the Union, and restore to our hearts that fraternal love 
which is essential to the power and progress of the Republic." 

General Robert Patterson, being called upon, responded as follows: 

"Mr. President and Gentlemen: I have been greatly gratified, to-day and this 
evening, in witnessing the magnificent celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the 
First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. This Troop is associated with my most pleasant 
memories. More than sixty years ago, during the War of 1812, when a very young man, 
of little service and less merit, the Troop honored me with an invitation to dine with it. 
I was well aware that the compliment was not to me personally, but to the grand old army, 
of which I was then a junior and humble member. 

" It is now more than half a century since the Troop first came under my command, 
and I have always selected it for escort-duty, in receptions of the Presidents of the United 
States, or others of sufficient merit to entitle them to that distinction. On the occasion 
of the visit of General Lafayette to the United States, it was his escort from Trenton to 
this city, and his escort and guard -of- honor whilst the General remained in or near 
Philadelphia. In the little rebellion, gotten up in this State in the winter of 1837-8, 
when the members of the Senate were driven in terror from their seats, and the Senate- 
Chamber was in possession of an armed and determined body of men, the Governor ordered 
my division to Harrisburg to restore and preserve order. All my command were reliable, 
but none more so than the Troop. This up-rising was known afterwards as the ' Buck-Shot 
War.' We were kept, against my judgment and entreaties, nearly one month at Harrisburg. 
The Troop was also with me in suppressing the riots of 1844, when a numerous, reckless, 
and lawless gang of fanatics undertook to bum down all the Catholic Churches and 
Seminaries in the City of Philadelphia, and it was with me in the Valley of the Shenan- 
doah in the summer of 1861. It was in the advance at the Battle of the Falling Waters; 
when, for the first and only time, that gallant soldier, ' Stonewall ' Jackson, was defeated 
and driven back. In this connection I will relate a little incident which may gratify such 
of those here present who were not then in the Troop. When Jackson's guns, and they 
were well served, were making the affair look rather serious, I rode up to the Troop and 
said: 'It may be necessary for me to direct you to take that battery, and if I give the 
order it must be done, no matter how many saddles are emptied.' I paused a moment 
and looked along the line at the diff"erent faces, the returning glance from each told me 
that they were ready and that I could rely on them. With pleased feeling I said : ' I know 
you will do it,' and rode away. The order was not given as the purpose was accomplished 



by other means, and I had no desire to throw away the lives of my soldiers, especially of 
my grand-children, as I called the First Troop. 

"In all this service and association of sixty years, the conduct of the First Troop has 
always merited and received my sincere personal and official approval, and I am indeed 
rejoiced to see the splendid condition of the Troop to-day. I could not say less than I 
have, — would gladly say more, but time admonishes, and I must now reply to the toast to 
'The National Centennial,' of which I had no timely notice, and for which I am not well 
prepared. I accept the wonderful gathering to-day, of soldiers and citizens, including 
distinguished men from our own and other States, as a hopeful promise of the still more 
numerous and wonderful assemblage that will gather here in honor of our National 
Centennial, the results of which, I believe, will meet the full expectations of the most 
sanguine, and assist largely in restoring fraternal love and good feeling throughout the 
entire length and breadth of the land. 

" Philadelphia, with Independence Hall, from the steps of which was officially pro- 
claimed our National Independence, is without doubt the proper place. Boston, with old 
Fanueil Hall, the cradle of Liberty, would be the next place ; but she has gracefully ceded 
her claim to Philadelphia, and the whole country approves the act. I was gratified to hear 
the distinguished son of Massachusetts, General Banks, say, a moment since, that Massa- 
chusetts would yet do her duty and contribute her full share of the funds necessary to carry 
the Centennial Exposition to its full and required capacity. I cannot doubt it. I feel 
confident that the old Bay State will come up nobly to our aid, and give more than her 
share. Her intelligence, patriotism, and great wealth would prompt her so to do, and I 
trust that there will be no further delay. AVhen, in the Revolution, Massachusetts was 
invaded and Boston occupied by British troops, did Pennsylvania hesitate or linger or 
postpone to see what Boston or Massachusetts could do for themselves ? No ; but promptly 
sent her sons to the aid of her sister ; and I expect to see Massachusetts send her funds to 
our aid, and I venture to say, as General Banks has said, that she will ; and while I am 
utterly opposed to that abomination of abominations, the so-called reciprocity treaty with 
Old England, I am as decidedly in favor of the reciprocity referred to with New England. 
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania have done their duty and will continue to do it. New 
Jersey has nobly assisted, as have many other of our sister States. I speak of New Jersey 
as she is Philadelphia's nearest neighbor, and with no invidious distinction. I believe the 
others will take favorable action, and hope they will do so promptly, as there is certainly 
no time to lose, and help us do what Congress should have done. The first step towards 
success is the determination to succeed, and this is well illustrated by the words and actions 
of Marshal Ney, when directed by the Emperor Napoleon to charge with his division and 
break the lines of a corps of the enemy, numerically four times his own strength. The 



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movement was of such a desperate character, that in all probability Napoleon would never 
have ordered any other man than Ney to execute it. Said Ney: ' Sire, if possible, it shall 
be done;' then, looking searchingly into the eyes of Napoleon, to ascertain if he were really 
in earnest, and seeing that he was, he again spoke, and said : ' If impossible, it must be 
done;' and it was done. 

"But I must close. I sincerely hope that all countries may be represented at the 
National Centennial Exposition of 1876, and that the intermingling of our own people 
may tend, above all other results, to restore and create that universal concord and fraternal 
love which all American citizens should cultivate towards each other, and I know full well 
enough of Philadelphia hospitality, to assure all of a hearty welcome to the city of the 
Quaker, and the land of William Penn." 

The next toast : 

" The Memory of Washington." 
Drunk standing and in silence. 
The regular toasts having been concluded, the following were offered : 

" Majoi'-General Charles M. Prevost — an old Trooper, a good soldier, and an accomplished officer — 
we give him a hearty welcome to-night." 

General Prevost, being called upon, responded by expressing the great pleasure he 
felt in being present upon this memorable occasion. As commander of the division, he 
felt proud of this organization, but more particularly as an old Trooper, who had served 
for years in the ranks. This day was a proud one for the National Guard of Pennsylvania. 
The troops of the general Government, and two great States, have united to do honor to a 
Company serving in our midst. It is a bright and shining example of what devotion to 
duty, when governed by patriotic principles, can accomplish. For one hundred years 
this organization has maintained itself as an institution Philadelphia loves to honor. He 
was proud as a citizen of the State, still more so as an officer of the National Guard, and 
more than all as a member of the Troop, that we have in Pennsylvania, so noble a type of 
the citizen soldiery of our country. He thanked the gentlemen for the kind manner in 
which his name was received and would ever remember, with pleasure, this delightful 
occasion. 

" General Bankson — until recently our Brigade Commander — we honor him as a strict disciplinarian, 
and regret that he is no longer of the National Guard of the State." 

In response, General Bankson said : 

"I very gratefully acknowledge the compliment you have just paid me. The friendly 
feeling evinced toward me, as the former commander of the First Brigade, by the gentleman 



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who has proposed my health, followed, as its expression has been, by the flattering remarks 
of the commanding officer, add much to my pleasure as the recipient of your hospitality. 
When, six months ago, I reliquished the command of the First Brigade — for which time 
had only increased my attachment — I felt as if I was sacrificing not only my pride, as- its 
commander, but also those military associations and social courtesies which had become 
very pleasant to me. I was wrong. Expecting to pass from sight and memory, I ever find 
from all a welcome, and to-night, on this memorable era in your history, a place among 
your honored guests. 

"And what an anniversary you celebrate ! Taking precedence of the Republic — hoary 
with the glories of a hundred years — you await the Centennial Anniversary of the Nation, 
which the founders of your Troop fought to establish. To you, their descendants and 
successors, is given to behold their perfected work. Great as has been the effort of this 
organization to celebrate, as it should be celebrated, this anniversary, still greater should be 
the exertion to welcome, with full ranks and undiminished ardor, the great event of 1876. 

" I do not wonder at the heartfelt pride in the Troop, expressed on all occasions by its 
members, and fully shared by your fellow-citizens. There are military organizations in 
the world with traditions and records ante-dating yours ; there are banners blazoned with 
the names of battles which have changed the fate of nations, but which of them, as they 
mutely appeal to our admiring eyes, can say as does yonder flag : ' I am the banner of 
freemen ; borne as the ensign of those who gave up all and followed me, to found a nation 
of freemen ! For Liberty ! For Independence ! For these we strive ! ' 

"Ah, gentlemen ! never can I believe this Troop will falter in its onward path. A 
century hence, when I and all who now hear me are but memories. Troopers will gather 
around the board, recall old names, old traditions, old histories, and at their Bi-Centennial, 
while perusing with pride the records from 1774 to 1874, recount the added glories of 
another hundred years. " 

Ex-Captain Faimian Rogers was called upon, by a complimentary allusion to himself, 
and responded briefly pnd appropriately by alluding to his long connection with the 
Troop, and the gratification he felt in being permitted to parade with the Company upon 
this memorable occasion as one of its officers. 

Commodore Preble, being also called upon, made a few remarks, referring to the 
Revolutionary Standard of the Troop, and the interest which would always be connected 
with it ; to the event which had called the Troop together, and the pleasure it gave him to 
unite with the members upon so auspicious an occasion. Several other complimentary 
remarks were made by the gentlemen present in response to personal toasts. 



In response to the sentiment of the "Privates of the Troop," Private John I. Rogers 
read the following verses, composed for the occasion : 



One hundred years ! One hundred year<; 

Are buried in primordial gloom, 
Unresurrected by vain tears, 

WTiich whet his scythe. Time fills his tomb 
With gold-wing'd monows, chrysaliss'd 

Into worm-eaten yester eves. 
That flitted by, scarce known or missed 

But told their fate in fallen leaves. 
Let's gather these papyrean scrolls 

And in their mute and pulseless stems, 
Translate Death's many muster-rolls 

From epitaphs to apothegms. 
Within a cent'ry's sepulchre. 

Strange knotted human relics lie ; 
The blood-stained gemm'd Excalibur 

That carved out States, near pens, now dry 
Of galled Ambition's ink, that made 

New maps, new subjects and new slaves ; 
Imperial sceptres peep, decayed. 

From grimy Communistic graves ; 
Unripe republics, cankering, mock 

" Divine ruled kingdoms' " vulgar dust ; 
And dynasties that strove to rock 

A world's foundations, mouldering, rust. 
But, Phcenix-like, the fetid air. 

That shrouds our dead one hundred years. 
Gives birth to a phosphoric glare. 

And Progress, thus revealed, appears ; 
Who, rising with his noblest son. 

Civilization, and his bride. 
Fair Liberty, crown Washington 

Their lord, and in his land abide. 
Blest hundred years ! that gave to earth 

Columbia's realm and Freedom's home ; 
WTiere aristocracy is worth. 

Where starry flag, like starry dome, 
O'erspreads, yet brightens, all beneath. 

And lights the humblest to the van. 
To win and wear the laurel wreath. 

Which knights him noble, peer and Man. 
Blest hundred years ! that close to-day, 

Though clouds of war obscured your dawn. 
Their silver lining shed its spray 

O'er eight and twenty sabres drawn. 
Baptizing, in the patriot's faith. 

The maiden falchions then unsheath'd, 
Devoted, spite grim Treason's wraith. 

To country's cause, while foemen breathed, 



And when those clouds in thunder broke 

And drench'd the land with hum.-.n gore, 
Those blades gleamed thro' the battle smoke ; 
And proud, the Troop of Light Horse wore 
Their tail of buck and silver cord, 

As emblems of chivalric trust, 
Credentials needing no pass-word — 

A precedent unknown — yet just; 
For, never where brave Morris led. 

Had Markoe's silken banner waved 
Its rich escutcheon o'er the head 

Of recreant, vulgar or depraved. 
Their homes of wealth and ease, forsook 

For tented field and bed of flint. 
Their feast — the mess, their wine — the brook ; 

Repose doled out with soldier stint. 
Let Trenton's streets and Princeton's plains 

And ice-gorged Delaware attest 
The glory, earned in those campaigns 

That blazons our armorial crest. 
Unstained that crest, though e'er unfurled 

By blast of war, it brighter grows 
As each orb of the stellar world. 

New, on the nation's ensign glows. 
We hail it with heraldic pride! 

An heritage immaculate ! 
Our knighthood's title-deed, our guide 

To Honor's crown inviolate ! 
We re-affirm bold Dunlap's pledge, 

' The Troop wants but an hour's call ' 
To claim its ancient privilege 

The vanguard, when Mars' tempests fall. 
And now, on our Centennial day, 
We'll summon the historic past, 
And, by its lurid beacon ray, 
Our horoscopic future ca.st. 
It warns us not to arrogate 

Ancestral laurels, us bequeath'd. 
But self-earned glories, dedicate 

T'enhance traditions, time — inwreath'd 
Cheered by these hallowed omens, now 

The First Troop City Cavalry 
To-day renews its ancient vow 

Of valor, honor, chivalry ! 
If kept, that vow, which each proclaims, 

Our next centennial will archive 
Our mem'ries with th' immortal names 
Our flag deviced, ' For these we strive.' " 



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The dinner was served on china, purchased by subscription and made expressly for the 
occasion ; being decorated with the sabretasch and hemlet of the Troop, and the champagne 
was also expressly imported ; the label being a reproduction of the design on the dinner- 
service. At a late hour, after a most brilliant evening, the company slowly dispersed, and 
the first hundred years of the life of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry was thus 
ended. 

The members of the Troop, who participated in uniform, in the celebration of its 
Centennial, were as follows : 

HONORARY MEMBERS. 



Edwin L. Tevis, 
Charles L. Leiper, 
William H. Taggart, M. D., 
Robert Thompson, Jr., 
Fairman Rogers, 
Emlen N. Carpenter, 

NON-ACTIVE MEMBERS. 



Edwin L. Reakirt, 
Frederick W. Fotterall, 
Rudolph Ellis, 
Gabriel Middleton, 
Horace P. Mitchell, 
Robert P. Wilson. 



William T. Lowber, 
Harrison Smith, 
Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., 
R. J. C. Walker, 



Stephen T. Souder, 
P. Frederick Goddard, 
James J. Macdowell. 



ACTIVE MEMBEE.S. 



M. Edward Rogers, 
J. Francis Maher, 
Robert E. Randall, 
A. Loudon Snowden, 
Francis F. Maury, 
Hext M. Perry, 
Jos. Lapsley Wilson, 
John Hockley, Jr., 
Robert P. Dechert, 
George Zinn, 
William D. Gemmill, 
Myer Asch, 
William F. Lewis, 
Harry P. Norris, 
Roberts Vaux, 



Captain, 

ist Lieutenant, 

2nd " 

Cornet, 

Surgeon, 

Assistant Surgeon, 

ist Sergeant, 

2nd " Q.M.; 

3d " 

4th " 

Sth " 

I St Corporal, 

2nd " 

3d " 

4th " 



Robert Adams, Jr., Private, 
George A. Audenried, 
Lloyd Bankson, Jr., 
Jos. Wm. Bates, Jr., 
J. Stanley Bruner, 
W. Masters Camac, 
William B. Churchman, 
Hugh Craig, Jr., 
J. Heron Crosman, 
Robt. Walter Deming, 
John B. Dickson, 
L. Taylor Dickson, 
Joseph I. Doran, 
Charles C. Dunn, Jr., 
William H. Gaw, 





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Edw. Burd Grubb, Private, Harry Wilson Price, Private, 


Thomas Hockley, ' 


' John L Rogers, ' 




J. Aubrey Jones, ' 


' J. West Rulon, ' 




Charles E. Kelly, ' 


' James K. Scofield, ' 




John A. King, ' 


' Norwood P. Senat, ' 




Perot Lardner, ' 


J. Emlen Smith, (D. Q. M.J ' 




Edw. Shinn Lawrance, ' 


' W. Horner Smith, ' 




Edw. Stuart Lawrance, ' 


' Thomas P. C. Stokes, 




John C. Love, ' 


' William Struthers, Jr., ' 




William Meade, ' 


' Frederick Sylvester, ' 




Albert L. Murphy, ' 


' Richard H.Townsend, Jr., ' 




Thomas William Neill, ' 


' Edward Waln, Jr., ' 




H. Corbit Ogden, ' 


' Samuel Welsh, Jr. , ' 




Walter E. Penrose, ' 


William R. White, 




Saml. W. Miller Peters, ' 


' John Wright, ' 




Alex. Fullerton Phillips, ' 


' Joseph Wright, ' 




Joseph T. Pratt, ' 


' Louis Snyder, (non-resd't) ' 




Eighty-three (83) members, an 


d Ellis Pugh and W. R. Phelps, trumpeters. 



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STANDARD PRESENTED BY CAPTAIN MARKOE IN 1775 
AND CARRIED BY THE TROOP IN THE WAR OFTHE REVOLUTION 



The Standards. 



The Old Standard. 



Among the relics preserved by the Troop, none relating to its earliest history possesses 
more value, or is of greater interest, than the old standard carried by the Company during 
all the campaigns in which it was engaged throughout the revolutionary struggle, and which 
has been handed down through successive generations of Troopers to the present day. For 
some time after the assembling of the first Congress in September, 1774, there existed no 
common flag in use by the disaffected colonists. The colors which were carried by 
vessels of all classes, and those which were adopted by military bodies, were in most cases 
the British commercial ensign, (which was a plain red flag with the union of the cross of 
St. George and the saltier of St. Andrew,) ornamented with various mottoes and threatening 
devices, or a flag displaying similar emblems, and in many instances the arms and mottoes 
of the several colonies, on plain fields of different colors. It would appear that the flags 
carried by independent military companies at this time, were the results of the inventions of 
the members or commanders of those bodies, and Captain Markoe while in command of 
the Troop, following the prevailing custom, and desiring at the same time to present the 
Company which had honored him by placing him at its head, with some token of his affec- 
tion and respect, had prepared this standard, little thinking when giving the draught to the 
designer, how important a step he was taking toward the creation of the ensign of the 
United States. 

No mention of this standard is made in any of the books which have been written on 
the history of the national flag, or in any of the many publications of the different historical 
societies of the country, before that found in the exhaustive and interesting work entitled, 
" Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States of America," by Geo. Henry Preble, 
U. S. N., 1872 ; where it is stated that : " the supposed earliest instance of the thirteen stripes 
being used upon an American banner is found upon a standard said to have been presented 
to the Philadelphia troop of Light Horse, in i774-'75, by Captain Abraham Markoe." In 
this work is given the following description of the flag by Mr. Charles J. Lukens of Phila- 
delphia, which, owing to its great accuracy, is here quoted : 

"The flag of the light-horse of Philadelphia is forty inches long and thirty-four inches 
broad. Its canton is twelve and one-half inches long and nine and one-half inches wide. 



The armorial achievement in its centre occupies the proportional space shown in the draw- 
ing; both sides of the flag exhibit the same attributes. The left side shows everything as if 
the material were transparent, giving the right side entirely in reverse, except the cyphers 
^. ^., and the motto, ' For these we strive.' The cyphers, the running vine on both sides, 
the cord and tassels, and the fringe are of silver bullion twist. The spear-head and the 
upper ferrule, taken together eight inches in length, are of solid silver. The staff is of dark 
wood, in three carefully ferruled divisions screwing together. Ten screw rings at irregular 
intervals from two and one-half to three and three-fourths inches, are used to attach the flag 
to the staff by means of a cord laced through corresponding eyelets in the flag. The flag 
is formed of two sides very strongly hemmed together along the edges, each side being of 
two equal pieces attached together by means of a horizontal seam, the material of the flag 
being a light bright yellow silk and apparently the same tint as that of the present artillery 
flag of the United States. The canton of the flag is ' Barry of thirteen azure and argent. ' 
The azure being deep ultra marine, the argent silver leaf. The achievement in the centre of 
the flag is azure, a round knot of three interlacings, with thirteen divergent, wavy, bellied 
double foliated ends (?r; whereof two ends are in chief, and one in base. The scrolled 
edging of the shield is gold, with outer and inner rims of silver. 

"The crest, (without a wreath) a horse's head bay, with a white star on the forehead, erased 
at the shoulders, maned sable, bitted and rosetted or, and bridled azure. Over the head of the 
charger is the monogram ^. ^. Beneath the shield, the motto ' For these we strive,' in black 
Roman capitals of the Elizabethan style, on a floating silver scroll, upon the upcurled ends of 
which stand the supporters. Dexter, a Continental, masquerading as an American Indian 
(probably of the Boston tea party, December i6th, 1773),' with a bow or, the loosened string 
blue floating on the wind, in his left hand, and in his right, a gold rod upholding a liberty cap, 
with tassel azure, the lining silver, head dress and kilt (or ga-ka-ah) of feathers, the former 
of five alternately of dark red, and gold, with fillet of crimson. The latter of seven alter- 
nately oi gold and of dark red. (This may be of eight, and then it would be 5 + 8^13, 
alternately of dark red, and of gold, as the gold at least occupies the extreme natural right 
of the kilt. The uncertainty arises from age, and the fact that the dependent ends of a 
crimson shoulder sash or scarf, worn from left to right with knot at the waist, bound the left 
edge of the kilt, which itself is supported by a narrow girdle, with pendant loops of gold, 
and the looped spaces red.) The quiver is of gold supported over the right shoulder by a 
blue strap, its arrows axe proper. A continental officer's cresent, gold, suspended around the 
neck by a blue string, rests just where the clavicles meet the sternum. The moccasins are 
buff with, feather tops, I think alternated dark red, and gold. The Indian has deep black 
hair, but his skin is intermediate between the Caucasian and the aboriginal hues., rather in- 
clining to the former, and his cheek is decidedly ruddy, almost rosy. He approaches the 

I The Company has always interpreted the device of the Indian as representing America, and with the addition of the 
liberty pole and cap representing Freedom, symbolizing as a whole Free America. 



shield in profile as does also the sinister supporter which represents an angel of florid tint, 
roseate cheek, with auburn curly hair, and blue eyes, blowing a golden trumpet, held with his 
right hand, and holding in his left a gold rod. His wings are a light bluish gray with change- 
able flashes of silver. His flowing robe from the right shoulder to the left flank \% purple. 
These supporters not being heraldic in position and motion for human or angelic figures, 
their left and right action have the natural and not the heraldic significations. 

"The flag is in admirable condition, considering that nearly one hundred years have 
elapsed since it was made. The whole is a model of good taste and judgment, and evidences 
that Captain Markoe spared no expense." 

The regret which Commodore Preble expresses that the precise date of invention of the 
Troop standard cannot be ascertained, is partially dissipated by the recent discovery among 
the papers of Captain Markoe, by his great grandson, Lieut. William Camac, of the original 
bills here appended and now in possession of the Company : 

September i6th, 1775, 
M'. Marchoo D'. 

To John Folwell, 
To Drawing & Designing the Coulours for 
the light Horse, £^-'^l- — 

Ten shillings paid in part. 
Rec"* 22'' of Sep. of Abram Markoe Above in full, 

John Folwell. I 



Philad^ 8th Sept'. 1775. 
Captain Markoe 

To James Claypoole, D'. 
To painting, gilding & silvering a Device, Union 
& Motto on 2 Colours for the Troop of Light 
Horse @ ;^4 ? - " " ;^8 o o. 

Received the Contents in full from 
Mr. Mitchell James Claypoole.. 



Nothing appears upon these papers to fix the precise date of the ordering of the flag; the 
bill for designing is dated a week later than the bill for painting, and in the absence of other 

I After a careful examination of cotemporaneous newspapers, directories and public records for information as to the history 
of these two gentlemen, nothing whatever can be found of John Folwell. not even the name ; partial success, however has attended 
the search for James Claypoole. It appears that he was a painter in Philadelphia as early as 1749, following probably the occupa- 
tion of sign painting, but possessing at the same time some taste for high art. He was the father of David C. Claypoole, who was 
a member of the Troop in 1794, and who was at that time a partner and afterivards the successor of Captain John Dunlap, the 
publisher of the D,.ily Advertiser, in after years known as Poulson's, and now merged in the North American. No clew can be 
discovered as to the place of birth of James Claypoole, or as to his parentage. He died in Philadelphia in 1784. 



bills of later date for work done, we may be permitted to suppose that the standard was 
completed some considerable time before the above were presented to Captain Markoe 
in the month of September, and it has, therefore, been thought possible that General Washing- 
ton remembered the thirteen stripes on this flag as seen by him while borne by the Troop, 
which accompanied him June 21st, 1775, from Philadelphia to New York, en route to take 
command of the army in Massachusetts, and it suggested to him a similar symbol for the 
striped "union flag hoisted in compliment to the United Colonies," ' at Cambridge six 
months later, and afterwards carried into Boston by the American army upon the evacua- 
tion of that city by the British ; this may have been the case, but it is more probable that the 
suggestion was made to Washington by Colonel Joseph Reed, liis military secretary, who, 
as a resident of Philadelphia at this time, had doubtless many opportunities of seeing this 
flag carried by the Troop. "While we may fairly infer from General Washington's letter 
that this emblem, of union had presented itself to his mind as such, * * * * 

we may conclude that Colonel Reed had something to do with its preparation. This con- 
clusion is strengthened by the fact, that Colonel Joseph Reed was Secretary to the Com- 
mittee of Conference ^ sent by Congress to arrange with General Washington the details of 
the organization of the army, which went into being January 2nd, 1776, and, at the very 
time that Committee was in session at the camp in Cambridge, we find Colonel Reed having 
the subject of flags under consideration." 3 

The flag which was raised at Cambridge, bore upon its field the thirteen stripes in red 
and white as now found on the national standard, its union being the combined cross of 
St. George and the saltier of St. Andrew, as on the British merchant flag of the time. The 
substitution of the union of white stars in a blue field was ordered by a Resolution of Con- 
gress passed June 14th, 1777. 

This standard was carried by the Troop on all important parades until about the year 
1830, when its condition, owing to age, and the consequent risk of its exposure, prevented 
its use in service. It has, however, usually been displayed at the anniversary dinners and 
other entertainments of the Company. In the year 1872, it being thought desirable that it 
should no longer be handled, the Troop had niade a very handsome frame and case for its 
safe keeping. The frame is of black walnut in the form of a screen, in which is set the case, 
made of two plates of plate glass between which the flag is placed. On either side and below 
the case, on one face of the frame, are attached the three sections of the staff. In the orna- 
mental head of the frame is a small semi-circular opening faced on either side with glass, which 
contains the spear-head and tassels. In the construction of the armory (1874) a fire-proof 
safe was built for the special purpose of containing this frame, in which are also to be found 
the original bills referred to above. 



I Letter from General Washington to Joseph Kecd, January 4th, 1776.— Sparks. 

1 This Committee of Conference was composed of Dr. Franklin, Mr. Lynch and Mr. Harrison. 

3 The History of the National Flag of the United States of America by Scnuyler Hamilton, Capt. by Bri 



t, U.S. A., 1853. 



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In the Military Magazine for the year 1S39, appeared a very accurate colored engraving 
of a Trooper of that day, and also one representing the flag, to which were attached the 
following lines by A. McMakin : 

Fame and Liberty. ' 

" No trophy doth the earth conceal. 

To Freeman's soul more truly dear, 
No conquest of the ensanguined steel, 

A Freeman's heart like this can cheer; 
' For these '.ue strive,' each burnished sword 

With ardor struggles to be free. 
And in the foremost ranks would guard 

Our spotless Fame and Liberty. 

Unfold the banner to the light, 

And let its blazonry appear, 
Unmarred by black oppression's night, 

Unshaken still by craven fear; 
'For these '^ue strive,' a potent charm 

To conjure forth the brave and free. 
To warm the heart and nerve the arm 

That strikes for Fame and Liberty ! 

' For these -cue strive,' what brighter name 

Can man achieve or beauty see, 
Than Worth to share his country's Fatne, 

Ot perish for her liberty! 
Behold its gleam along the sky, 

A seal of hope a promise given 
That 'neath its folds who justly die, 

Shall win a recompense in Heaven." 



THE STANDARD OF 1797. 

This Standard was presented to tlie Troop by Mrs. Elizabeth Powel in the year 1797, 
with the following letter: 

" Mrs. Powel's respectful Compliments to Captain Dunlap and the Gentlemen of the 
First City Troop of Cavalry. She has the pleasure to present to them a Standard which 
she begs their acceptance of, as an Evidence of her confidence in their Valour and Patriotism. 

The Honour intended her by those Gentlemen of waiting on her as a Corps she begs 
leave to decline, but she will be always happy to receive them individually as fellow citizens. 
Patriots, and Gentlemen. The Timidity natural to her Sex, existing Circumstances, and 
her period of Life will, she trusts, plead her Apology for declining an Honour that under 
other Circumstances would have been most flattering to her. 

PhiladS, March i6th, 1797." 



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Elizabeth Powel was a daughter of Charles Willing, merchant, Third Street and 
Willing's Alley, and her sister Margaret was the wife of Robert Hare, one of the founders 
of the Troop. She was the widow of Samuel Powel, the last Mayor of Philadelphia under 
the government of the Proprietors, (i 775), and the first Mayor elected under the new charter 
of the city, (1789); he was a devoted patriot and an intimate friend of Washington, and 
died of yellow fever in the year 1 793. Mrs. Powel held a leading position in the society of 
her day, was on terms of the closest friendship with General and Mrs. Washington ; and 
Franklin, La Fayette and other great men of the Revolution were frequent guests of her 
houfe ; she died in the year 1830 at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. 

The material of which this flag is made is a fine satin, originally probably of a bright 
blue color, but now pale from age and exposure. It is thirty inches in length and twenty-eight 
and one-half inches in width, formed of two pieces strongly sewed together at the edge, 
and surrounded on three sides by a heavy twisted and knotted silk fringe six inches in 
breadth; the fourth side is looped or folded into a pocket its entire length to receive the 
flag staff, which is of dark wood, one inch in diameter and nine and one-half feet in length, 
made in two parts hinged together, and made firm and unbroken when required, by a sliding 
ferrule. The staff is surmounted by a spear head and socket of solid silver, the two taken 
together being ten inches in length ; the spear head is of carved open work, in which is 
seen an eagle holding a cavalry sabre. The device on this flag is shown on both sides, one 
of which is the exact reverse of the other, and consists of an eagle with out -spread wings 
painted in gold, shaded with purple and red ; the head turned toward the left shoulder, 
is, with the neck, colored black, the mouth open as though screeching, the tongue 
red and beak white, a floating scroll depends from the lower beak, one-half below, and the 
other half floating above the head, on wbich are inscribed the words in gold, ' ' AD ASTRA. ' ' 
The eagle is twenty-eight inches from tip to tip of wings, and ten inches from lower claw 
to top of head. The right half of the breast is concealed by a shield of two out-curving 
sides, meeting in a single point below, the top being formed of two re-entering curves ; it 
is five inches in its greatest height and width, and bears upon it the arms of the State of 
Pennsylvania painted in J>roper colors with great beauty and finish, and is supported by the 
right claw of the eagle clasping it by the upper right half; the left claw projects forward and 
to the left, and grasps four arrow-pointed zigzag thunder bolts, extending to the right and left 
of the body. The head is surrounded by five golden radiating palmated halos, averaging 
three and one-half inches in length ; above these and sprinkled through the field, are fifteeni 
eight-pointed silver stars of seven-eighths of an inch diameter, extending from tip to tip of 
wings ; the whole character of the work evidences the hand of an artist. The flag is in a very 
perfect state of preservation, notwithstanding its age. It was in service in the Northampton 
expedition and in the Mount Bull Campaign, and is still carried on all important parades of 
the Troop. 

I The flag of the United States bore fifteen stars and fifteen stripes from May ist, 1795, to July 4th, 1818. 




Armory 

Built 1874. 



Meeting Places and Armories. 



Before the spring of the year 1779, the records of the Troop fail to show where its 
meetings, either for business or pleasure, were held, but it is probable that they usually 
occurred at the City Tavern on the West side of Second Street, North of Walnut Street, 
otherwise known as "the old coffee house," and at that time kept by Edward Moyston. 
This tavern was the head-quarters between the years 1779 and 1787, and it was here that 
the dinner was given to Washington ; during these years the Troop occasionally met at the 
public house of William Ogden, at the Middle Ferry on the Schuylkill. This house was 
situated on the North side of Market Street about fifty yards East of the river on the site 
now occupied by the railroad approach to the present Market Street bridge, and was torn 
down about 1804, at the time of the erection of the bridge which took the place of the 
floating bridge and rope ferry at that point. 

In the year 1794 meetings were held at " Richardet's," (Louth Hall), No. 25 North 
Tenth Street, and in the succeeding three years this house, "Moyston's" and " Ogden's" 
were the principal places where the Troop assembled for business. In the spring of 1 798 
is found the first mention in the Troop Minutes of a meeting at the " castle," on the grounds 
of the State in Schuylkill, then near the western end of the present Girard Avenue bridge, 
but the intimate relations between the members of the Schuylkill Fishing Company and the 
Troop, and the fact that so many were of both organizations, sustain the tradition that in 
the previous twenty-three years the " old fish house" was very frequently a place of meeting. 

In this same year meetings for business and for exercise in drilling were held at Thomas 
Swann's Manege, a riding school then on the North side of what is now Sansom Street East 
of Ninth Street. Thomas Swann, in several letters which he wrote about this time, 
informed the members of the Troop that he had engaged an " English Light Dragoon, per- 
fect master of the Broad Sword," that he proposed uniting military instruction in horseman- 
ship with the use of the sword and that he would engage to train men and horses in eight 



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weeks so that they would form " the most perfect Corps in the Union," the drilling to take 
place " either at your parade or my premises." On the twelfth of July, the Troop entered 
into an agreement with Swann to be instructed in the use of the broad sword, and in light 
cavalry manoeuvers, "at their Parade in Chestnut Street three times a week, viz: on Tues- 
days, Thursdays and Fridays, from the hours of five to seven in the morning. * * 
On those days when the weather will not permit the exercise on the Parade, the same shall 
take place at the Manege of the said Thomas Swann." * * * Where this 
" Parade" of the Troop referred to in the above extract was, cannot now be ascertained; 
it must have been at least partly under roof, for we find that the Troop paid (June 1 798) 
for " 86 loads Tan and 4 loads Loam," and a carpenter's bill " for altering Leaping posts 
and putting up a piece of Fence. ' ' 

Between the years 1801 and 1805, meetings were held at " Fouquett's," North Tenth 
Street near Cherry Street; at "Ogden's," moved from the Schuylkill to No. 86 Chestnut 
Street; at "Hardy's," No. 98 High (now Market) Street, and at the old Coffee House on 
Second Street. 

From 1805 to 1808 the Troop met at " Peter Evans'," No. 138 South Front Street; at 
the Mansion House Hotel, " Renshaw's," corner of Third and Spruce Streets; at the Coffee 
House; at the Captain's quarters, (Captain Wharton), No. 135 South Third Street, South of 
Spruce Street, and at a public house " near the permanent Schuylkill bridge," kept by Peter 
Evans after he had left Front Street. This tavern, at that time at the Northeast corner of 
Schuylkill Front and High Streets, was a large three story brick building, approached by a 
high flight of stone steps with a large stable and yard in the rear, under which ran a small 
stream emptying into the river near the present line of Race Street. The house is now near 
the corner of Twenty-second and Market Streets, and is used for a furniture factory. 

In the years 1S08 to 1810, the head-quarters of the Troop were at the Shakespeare 
Hotel, Northwest corner of Sixth and Chestnut Street, kept by David Burnum, (an active 
member of the Troop from 1809 to 181 2), and weekly foot drills were held every Tuesday 
evening during the winter months "in the long room" in this hotel. The building was 
destroyed by fire at the time of the burning of the Chestnut Street Theatre in 1820. The 
mounted drills in inclement weather were held during the years 1809 to 1S13, at Swann's 
Manege, and business meetings were held at " Peter Evans'," on the Schuylkill. At other 
times during these years the Troop met at the Mansion House ; at " Fouquett's ;" at " David 
Barnum's," then at No. 242 High Street, (Market west of Seventh), and at Nice's, No. 
19 South Seventh Street, (Northeast corner of Jayne Street.) 

In 1814, Peter Evans was the host at the Falstaff' Tavern at the Northwest corner of 
Sixth and Carpenter (now Jayne) Streets, still a public house and bearing the same 
name, and in the year 181 6 he moved to the Northwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut 
Streets; in 1818 he again moved to No. 3 Little George (now Sansom) Street, West of 



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Sixth Street, afterwards kept by his son Joseph Ogden Evans, and still a public house called 
the Wetherill House. The Troop appears to have followed him in these changes, and made 
his tavern its meeting place until the autumn of 182 1, although occasional meetings were 
held and dinners given at " Rubicam's," No. 18 South Sixth Street; a tavern kept by Daniel 
Rubicam, one of the most noted caterers of the city, whose house was much frequented by 
the beef-steak clubs of that day. 

In the latter part of the year 1821, and until the end of the year 1823, the Troop met 
at Witmer's Hotel, No. 244 Market Street, West of Seventh Street; this house was kept by 
Henry Witmer, who was an active member of the Troop from 1814 to 1835, *"<i '' ^^ ^^ 
this hotel the grand dinner was given in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of 
the birth of Washington. Some time in 1823 Henry Witmer appears to have given up the 
proprietorship of this house, as the minutes of the business meetings of the Troop are headed 
"Neff's Hotel, (late Witmer's)," during the last half of the year. In January 1824, 
Witmer kept a tavern at the "Sign of the Lamb," No. 30 North Fifth Street, (house still 
standing but used for business purposes, the third house South of North Street), and this 
tavern was the headquarters of the Troop until the spring of 1827 ; but during these three 
years a few meetings took place and several dinners were eaten at the old houses of Peter 
Evans and Daniel Rubicam, and on field days halts were made at Harding's Hotel, Upper 
Ferry, then and for many years afterwards a celebrated stopping place for driving and walking 
parties, and which house was, until about 1864, south of the western end of the Callowhill 
Street (wire) bridge. 

In 1827 the Troop held its meetings at the house of Joseph Head, whose experiences 
in early life and the opportunities afforded him in the spending of a very large fortune which 
he inherited on coming of age, peculiarly fitted him for the position of a generous host. 
In the recollection of those who have been the guests of his different hotels, he is remem- 
bered as having been always the gentleman at the head of his table. He had taken the 
mansion (then lately vacated by Dr. Dorsey) at the Southwest corner of Washington Square 
and Walnut Street, and called his hotel the Franklin House (now the site of the building 
of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. ) It was at this place that the Troop celebrated 
its fiftieth anniversary in 1824. The following year Head opened a hotel at the Southeast 
corner of Eleventh and Market Streets, (on the site now occupied by the Bingham House), 
which he called the Mansion House Hotel; and the Troop met there, at "Rubicam's," at 
" Harding's," at the Bolivar House, known as "Evans' Centre Square," (Northwest corner 
of Market and Merrick Streets), kept by J. Ogden Evans, and at the Indian Queen Hotel, 
No. 15 South Fourth Street, kept by Aaron Clement, who became a Trooper in 1827, and 
remained on the active roll sixteen years. 

On the minutes of August 20th, 1828, is found the first mention of the Troop having a 
fixed meeting place exclusively its own; it is there recorded that a meeting was held that day 



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" at the Hall of the Troop, corner of Carpenter and Sixth Streets." This hall was a room 
on the second floor of a building which then stood at the Southwest corner of Sixth and Jayne 
Streets, immediately adjoining on Sixth Street the /?V entrance to the "new" Chestnut 
Street Theatre, with small shops on the first floor, and the entrance to the second floor on 
Jayne Street, East of the rear of the theatre. The building was owned by James Burke, a 
Trooper, from 1821 to 1832, who at this time had a clothing store on the Northwest corner 
of Chestnut Street, (the site of the Shakespeare Hotel), which, with this building, was 
destroyed by fire in 1851. The Troop rented the room for one year, when this experiment 
of an armory was abandoned, and the furniture sold. 

During the following nine years, meetings were most frequently held at " Aaron 
Clement's," which was at the Indian Queen Hotel until 1832 and afterwards at the Commer- 
cial Hotel, No. 31 Chestnut Street, East of Second Street. The old names of "Rubicam's," 
" Evans'," " Harding's," and " the fish-house," (at the latter the Troop were the guests of 
Captain Hart, who became the Governor of the Schuylkill Fishing Company in 1838), occa- 
sionally appear at the head of the minute-book, and with these old names, the Black Bear 
Hotel, Fifth Street South of Market, (site now occupied by the Eastern Market House) ; the 
La Grange Hotel on Broad Street, the American Coffee House on Chestnut Street, and the 
Adelphi Coffee House on South Fifth Street. 

From November 17th, 1838, to July 8th, 1839, weekly meetings were held at the Apsley 
House, on the North side of Walnut Street East of Fifth, then six meetings were held at 
the Black Bear Hotel during the autumn of this year, and on the Sixteenth of November it 
was "Resolved, that the Union Hotel be hereafter the Head Quarters." This hotel was 
kept by John A. Jones at No. 152 Chestnut Street, West of Sixth Street, was afterwards 
known as Jones' Hotel, and is now the office of the Philadelphia "German" Democrat. 
The Troop continued to meet there until the spring of 1841, and during the remainder of the 
year the meetings were held at the "Captain's Quarters," (now No. 512 Arch Street), at 
"Lieutenant Butler's Quarters," (now No. 1612 Walnut Street), and "in the saddle." 

In the year 1842 and until the winter of 1850, the meetings took place at the United 
States Hotel, No. 151 Chestnut Street, West of Fourth Street, (on which site was recently 
erected the building of the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company), 
at the William Penn Tavern, on Market Street, West Philadelphia, and "in the saddle." 
In December 1850, and until March 1853, the Troop made Jones' Hotel its headquarters, 
and in 1852 mounted drills were held at the riding school of John Ellis in Westmoreland 
(now Lardner) Street, East of Fifteenth Street. This room was over a stable, and it is now 
the armory and drill room of the Washington Grays and of D. Company, First Infantry. 

On March 23d, 1853, an armory was again established by the renting of the front room 
on the third floor of the building at the Northeast corner of Eighth and Chestnut Streets, 
and all business meetings and foot drills were held there during the following six years. 



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The Troop having fitted up a room on the third floor of a building on the west side of 
Twelfth Street, South of Chestnut, moved its quarters there on November 15th, 1859, and 
used the room for the purposes of an armory during the following five years. 

The advisability of securing for an armory a building to be used for mounted exer- 
cises, and which would be under the sole control of the Troop, had for many years been 
apparent, and on November 6th, 1862, a committee— M. Edward Rogers, Robert E. Randall, 
Harrison T. De Silver, William C. Baker and JsLmes West, Jr.,— was appointed "to take 
into consideration the propriety of securing a new armory;" in a report made in Feb- 
ruary of the following year, the erection of an armory was recommended, and a plan for 
raising the necessary money submitted. The report was accepted, an issue of certificates of 
loan bearing four per cent, interest was authorized, and the members of the committee were 
constituted a board of trustees to issue the certificates and build an armory ; a deed of trust 
to secure the holders of the certificates was executed in the names of Thomas Smith, 
Harrison T. De Silver, and Paul B. Goddard, M. D. The lot of ground on the west side 
of Twenty-first Street, South of Market (21st and Ash Streets), was purchased for $5,000, 
and the ceremony of laying the corner-stone took place on the twelfth of August ; the armory 
was occupied in January of the next year, and formally opened February 22nd, 1864. The 
building was of brick, two-stories high in front, with a riding-hall in the rear, and occupied 
a trifle more than three-fourths of the ground, having in its front on Twenty-first Street an 
open space with a flag-pole in the centre, inclosed by an iron fence on the street lines. 
The armory cost about $19,000, of which §S>o°o remained on mortgage, and the rest was 
raised by subscriptions to the loan, as follows : 



From Active members : 
M. Edward Rogers, 
Edwin L. Reakirt, 
Robert E. Randall, 
John W. Grigg, 
John A. Brown, Jr., 
Andrew C. Cattell, 
Joseph P. Wood, 
Henry Ashhurst, 
William C. Baker, 
A. Charles Barclay, 
Oliver W. Barnes, 
Francis Barton, 
George E. Benson, 
William H. Canby, 



$250, 

150. 
100, 

35°. 
5°°. 
250. 
150. 
100, 

250. 
100, 
250, 
250. 
100, 
100, 



Augustus M. Conover, $100, 

O. Wilson Davis, 500, 

Harrison T. De Silver, 2,500, 

Francis E. Felton, 150, 

Alexander Hemsley, 150, 

R. Patterson Kane, 100, 

Frederick Klett, Jr. , 500, 

Richard S. Mason, 100, 

Wm. Hall Mercer, 100, 

Gilbert H. Newhall, 100, 

E. Whitehead Smith, 100, 

William D. Smith, 500, 

Joseph F. Tobias, 250, 

Edward S. Whelen, Jr. , 400, 

Theodore Wright, 50. 



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From Non-active members : 

Henry P. Borie, ^250, 

William H. Stewart, 250, 

From Honorary members : 

William H. Hart, $250, 

Moses Thomas, . 100, 

Charles Macalester, 250, 

George Cadwalader, 500, 

Thomas Smith, 500, 

William Camac, 150, 

From ex-members : 

Edward M. Hopkins, $2$°, 

William Stevenson, 150, 

From citizens : 

Henry B. Benners, ;gioo, 



T. Wharton Fisher, 



William D. Lewis, Jr. 
David B. Birney, 
William H. Potter, 
John Borthwick, 
Horace Y. Evans, M. 



George T. Lewis, 
Robert H. Gratz, 

John Gibson, 



;gioo. 



?5o. 
250, 

2S0> 
100, 

5°- 



gioo, 

250. 



;?ioo, 



and a contribution from Elisha J. Lewis, M. D., of one hundred dollars in cash, and from 
William C. Baker, a bill of gas-fixtures, amounting to two hundred and fifty dollars. 

In the autumn of 1864, Harrison T. De Silver, the largest holder of the armory loan, 
addressed a letter to the other holders, offering to surrender his certificates and asking their 
co-operation ; with the assistance of Treasurer Baker he succeeded in inducing the holders 
of gi 1,200 of the bonds, to present their certificates as gifts to the Troop. The certificates 
which had been issued to O. W. Barnes, O. W. Davis, F. E. Felton, D. B. Birney and W. 
Stevenson, amounting to ^1,300, had been transferred to other parties, and were purchased 
by the Company for ^1,150. The Troop found itself, on November 17th, 1864, relieved of 
all indebtedness other than the original mortgage. 

On August 24th, 1869, John W. Grigg died, bequeathing to the Troop the munifi- 
cent legacy of ten thousand dollars ; this sum, less the United States succession tax (the 
legislature of Pennsylvania remitting the collateral inheritance tax), was promptly paid by 
his executors, and was set apart by the Troop as a nucleus of an armory fund. Having 
obtained this money, the idea of enlarging the armory, which had been found too small for 
the purposes of the Company, took more definite shape, and in February of the following 
year, M. Edward Rogers, Fairman Rogers and Frederick W. Fotterall, were constituted a 
committee " to obtain estimates for making extensions or repairs to the present armory or 
for erecting a new one." In June following, the committee submitted plans for the exten- 
sion of the building to the street line, at an estimated cost of g 18,000, and another com- 



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mittee was appointed — A. Loudon Snowden, Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., Harrison T. De Silver, 
Jos. Lapsley Wilson and Gilbert H. Newhall — to obtain subscriptions from the members 
with a view of carrying out the proposed extension. While this committee was engaged in 
its labors, having secured subscriptions amounting to several thousand dollars, one of its 
members, Harrison T. De Silver, died September loth, 1870, and by his will added to his 
many generous actions in life a bequest to the Troop of ten thousand dollars, but being sub- 
ject to a life interest therein, could not be made available as an addition to the armory-fund. 
The vacancy in the committee caused by the death of Mr. De Silver was filled by the appoint- 
ment of Joseph F. Tobias. 

In the autumn of 1872, the question of the proper manner of celebrating the one hun- 
dredth anniversary, having been for some time previously agitated, and the amount of the- 
subscriptions to carry out the original plan of the extension of the armory not being suffi- 
cient for this purpose, it was deemed best to discharge the old committee, and to appoint 
another with increased power. The new committee was appointed and instructed "to devise 
and submit plans, collect funds and in general to devise ways and means for the appropriate 
celebration of the Company's approaching Centennial," and consisted of the following 
non-active, active, and honorary members : M. Edward Rogers, George Cadwalader, 
Thomas Smith, J. Francis Maher, Robert E. Randall, A. Loudon Snowden, Henry P. Borie, 
John A. Brown, Jr., Joseph F. Tobias, William C. Baker, James J. Macdowell, John 
Hockley, Jr., Frederick W. Fotterall, Myer Asch, and George Zinn. Mr. Borie subsequently 
declining, Rudolph Ellis was appointed in his stead. 

This committee was designated the " Centennial Committee," and on December ist, 

1873, presented a report to the Troop, among other things advising the extension of the 
armory by the erection on Twenty-first Street of a building to conform with certain draw- 
ings which had been prepared by Messrs. Furness and Hewitt, Architects. The report was 
accepted by the Company and the committee was instructed to solicit subscriptions and 
proceed with the work. The members of the Troop and many of their friends generously 
responding to the call for money, the contract for the building was awarded to Messrs. 
Williams and McNichol, and the work was begun in the following spring ; the Troop having 
rented the skating rink at Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, established itself there in May 

1874, and used the building as a temporary armory during the following six months. On 
the fourth of July the corner-stone of the armory was laid, and on the fifteenth of November 
the building was occupied. The next evening the armory was formally opened by a reception 
given to the friends of the members, and on Tuesday, November 17th, 1874, the armory 
"built in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Troop," was dedicated. 

The building covers the entire area of the lot of ground, sixty-six feet wide and one 
hundred and eighty-eight feet long, facing on Twenty-first Street, and with a small street on 



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the north and west sides. The walls of the front portion of the building are of Leiper stone 
in rounded courses in the first story, and above of pressed brick with heavy cornices in the 
shape of a battlement, rising in one corner resembling a low tower. The riding-hall is on 
the ground and measures 63 feet by 166 feet, and is 18 feet high to the spring of the roof- 
beams; it has a large door on each of the three streets and is lighted by a sky-light running 
along the peak of the roof, and by windows on three sides ; it is also provided with five 
hanging circles of gas-jets. In one corner of the ground, is a platform 25 feet by 20 feet, 
for the accommodation of spectators, and the other corner is occupied by the staircase, 
kitchen and wash-room. The second floor partly overhangs the riding-hall, and is supported 
by a Howe truss ; on this floor is a room 50 feet by 32 feet, used as a meeting-room and 
for the anniversary dinners of the Company, to which is attached a pantry ; the meeting- 
room is lighted by two large casement windows and three handsome chandeliers and con- 
tains a fire-proof safe, built in the southern wall, for the purpose of receiving the Revolutionary 
Standard ; from this room access is gained to a balcony overlooking the riding-hall ; the 
pantry is fitted up with china and linen closets and with a sink , and opening into it is a 
fire-proof room for the keeping of papers, which projects beyond the face of the outer wall 
in the form of a bay. Immediately above this is another fire-proof, opening into the saddle- 
room and used for the storage of ammunition. On the third floor is a private room for 
the officers; also a barrack-room with closets for the uniforms of each member, a room well 
appointed with camphor chests, tables, shelving, etc., for the receipt and disbursement of 
quarter-master stores, and a store-room for camp equipage ; in this latter room is the upper- 
most opening of an elevator which runs from the top to the bottom of the building with 
other openings into the riding-hall, the kitchen, the pantry and the saddle-room. Under 
the stair-case and adjoining the riding-hall is a fire pump with hose long enough to carry a 
stream of water to any part of the building. A large target is secured to the wall at the 
western end of the riding-hall ; it has a gas-light reflector above it, and by an arrangement 
of gas brackets at the eastern end of the building, a rifle range of fifty-five yards is obtained 
along the southern wall. 

The cost of the extension and improvement of the armory was about thirty thousand 
dollars, which sum was obtained from the following sources : from the accumulation of the 
John W. Grigg legacy, $11,195.25 ; from contributions — by active members of the Troop, 
$5,900; by non-resident members, $625; by non-active members, $2,350; by honorary 
members, $3,745; by ex-members, $250; and by citizens, friends of the Troop, $2,550; 
An additional amount of $3,930 was obtained by paying off the mortgage of $5,000, which 
was then on the building, and creating a new mortgage for $8,930 to the trustees of the 
estate of Harrison T. De Silver. The principal of this mortgage represents the legacy of 
Mr. De Silver, less the collateral inheritance tax and an abatement which it, in common with 





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other bequests of Mr. De Silver 


suffered. By 


this means the life tenan 


will be paid her 


income, and by her death the mortgage will be 


paid off. 




In addition to their subscript 


ions to the building-fund the members raised among them- 


selves a sum of about twenty-five hundred dollars, which was expended ir 


the purchase of a 


large dinner-service of china-ware 


, of carpets, and of general furniture. Many gifts of other 


articles of furniture were received from generous 


friends of the Troop, among which gifts are 


most prominent : — an iron target, 


fourteen feet wide and sixteen feet high 


, from Dr. George 


Bailey ; a chandelier in imitation of ancient armor, from Messrs. James E 


. Caldwell & Co.; 


plaster casts of the Captain James' monument 


trophies, from William 


Struthers, Esq.; a 


mounted elk's head and antlers, from Frank H. 


Clark, Esq. and Messrs. Smith & Campion, 


and a large punch-bowl decorated with Troop coat-of-arms, from Messrs. 


Steele Brothers. 


The following were the contributions received on account of the armory fund : 


From active members : 








M. Edward Rogers, 


J5250. 


L. Taylor Dickson, 


^100, 


J. Francis Maker, 


100, 


William H. Gaw, 


100, 


Robert E. Randall, 


' 250, 


Edw. Burd Grubb, 


Soo> 


A. Louden Snowden, 


250. 


Thomas Hockley, 


100, 


Francis F. Maury, M. D., 


100, 


J. Aubrey Jones, 


250, 


Jos. Lapsley Wilson, 


250, 


Perot Lardner, 


500. 


John Hockley, Jr., 


i5°> 


John C. Love, 


100, 


Robert P. Dechert, 


100, 


Albert L. Murphy, 


100, 


George Zinn, 


100, 


Walter R. Penrose, 


100. 


William D. Gemmill, 


100, 


John I. Rogers, 


100, 


Myer Asch, 


5°. 


J. West Rulon, 


150, 


Roberts Vaux, 


100, 


Thos. P. C. Stokes, 


5°. 


William F. Lewis, 


100, 


Rich'd. H. Townsend 


Jr., ioo, 


Harry P. Norris, 


100, 


Edward Waln, Jr., 


100, 


Jos. Wm. Bates, Jr., 


100, 


Samuel Welsh, Jr., 


IOO, 


William B. Churchman, 


100, 


William R. White, 


So°> 


Hugh Craig, Jr., 


500, 


Joseph Wright, 


250. 


From non-resident members : 








Peter A. Browne, 


S125, 


Henry S. Leech, 


$200, 


David C. Leech, 


200, 


Louis Snyder, 


IOO. 


From non -active members : 








William T. Lowber, 


$100, 


John A. Brown, Jr., 


^1,000, 


Henry P. Borie, 


250, 


William C. Baker, 


1,000. 



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From honorary members : 



William H. Hart, 


$50°' 


George Cadwalader, 


500, 


Robert Patterson, 


50 


Thomas Smith, 


500 


Alexander Biddle, 


25. 


Fairman Rogers, 


1,000 


rem ex-members : 




George T. Lewis, 


;^ioo 


Osgood Welsh, 


50 


■cm citizens: 




Dr. George Bailey, 


gioo 


John P. Bankson, 


100 


Beauveau Borie, 


100 


Neilson Brown, 


200 


David S. Brown & Co., 


100 


Simon Cameron, 


100 


George W. Childs, 


100 


James L. Claghorn, 


100 


J. Hinckley Clark, 


5°. 


G. Dawson Coleman, 


100, 


Anthony J. Drexel, 


100, 


Edwin T. Eisenbrey, 


100, 



Edwin L. Reakirt, J50, 

Joseph F. Tobias, 500, 

Horace Y. Evans, M. D., 20, 

Rudolph Ellis, 250, 

Frederick W. Fotterall, 250, 

Ralph M. Townsend, M. D., 100. 

John Lowber Welsh, ^100. 



W. Harrison Eisenbrey, Si 00, 

John Gibson's Son & Co. , 200, 

Paris Haldeman, 100, 

J. Alfred Kay, 100, 

Thomas McKean, 250, 

James Moore, 100, 

Henry M. Phillips, 100, 

Edward Roberts, Jr., 50, 

James G. Smith, 100, 

Thomas McI. Stewart, 50, 

William Struthers, 100, 

John Tucker, Jr., 50. 



The Captains 



Abraham Markoe. 1774 — 1776. 

Abraham Markoe, the first Captain of the Troop, was born in Denmark about the year 
1733, came to America in early manhood, afterwards settled in Philadelphia, and died 
there August 28th, 1806. 

His family was largely interested in the sugar business, and he, with his brothers, was en- 
gaged in that enterprise in the Island of Santa Cruz, West Indies, trading between that place 
and this country. Upon the association of the twenty-eight gentlemen who founded the 
Light Horse, on the evening of November 17th, 1774, he was chosen Captain. As the 
records of Captain Markoe's family give no indication that he had ever held any military 
position in the land of his birth or in that of his adoption, it is probable that the rank of 
Captain had been pressed upon him, rather as a compliment to the activity and energy he 
no doubt displayed in organizing, and possibly originating, this Troop of horse, than by 
reason of any military knowledge he possessed. If Captain Markoe was the creator of 
this Corps, he called into existence a body of men who, with their successors, have done 
honor to his name for a century, and he has the distinction of having organized the first 
purely volunteer military association which this country had ever seen. As a gentleman of 
means and position, he was enabled to gather around him the best men of his day, and the 
"Troop of light horse" thus began its career, with a reputation for honor and bravery, 
which, through its long life, it has never lost, and which has kept it ever above reproach. 
Captain Markoe appears, from the very meagre records of those early years of the Troop, to have 
been in command of the Company until the spring of the year 1776, when the news of the 
issuing of the neutrality edict of Christian VII of Denmark, dated October 4th, 1 775, reached 
America. In view of the penalty of the violation of this edict, which was the confiscation 
of his property in the Danish possessions, and the consequent embarrassment of his family 
in the Islands, he was compelled to withdraw from open participation in the then existing 
war, and resigning his position as Captain, he was placed upon the Honorary Roll of the 
Troop. 

During the years 1777-8, Captain Markoe resided at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and from 
Christopher Marshall's Remembrancer ^^ learn, that he was present at the Battle of Brandy- 



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wine, and, that on the day of the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British, " he, being upon 
the lines, entered the city," although it is not mentioned in either of these instances 
whether he acted as a soldier or citizen, but it is fair to presume that a man of his impetu- 
osity and bravery (his family records in many instances show that he possessed both charac- 
teristics), could not stand an idle spectator of scenes in which he took so great an interest, 
and that he assisted by all honorable means in his power the defeat of the enemy; and 
many business letters, still in existence, directed to him from various members of his family 
in the West Indies, urging his immediate visit to those islands at this time on pressing 
matters of importance to himself, were evidently disregarded, as he did not visit Santa 
Cruz for several years after these occurences. Sometime in the summer of 1775, he had 
made, and presented to the Troop, the standard, of which more particular mention is made 
elsewhere in this book, and which is now its most cherished heirloom. 

Captain Markoe married in early life, Elizabeth Kenny, who died, leaving one son, 
Abraham, who, after passing most of his life in Santa Cruz, went to Denmark and there re- 
sided until his death. He again married, December 22nd, 1773, Betsy Baynton, by whom he 
had several children. Many of his descendants and family connections have been mem- 
bers of the Troop, and in the fifth generation he is still there represented. 

He was the owner of large blocks of ground in the city of Philadelphia, notably of the 
one on which was erected the building intended for the Executive Mansion of the Presi- 
dent of the United States, which was (1800) sold to the University of Pennsylvania, and 
on which is now (1874) being built the United States Courts and Post Office. 

The likeness of Captain Markoe is a copy of the oil painting now in possession of the 
Troop, which was presented by his grand-daughter, Mrs. George W. Chapman. 



Samuel Morris. 1776 — 1786. 

Samuel Morris, the second Captain of the Troop, the son of Anthony and Sarah Morris, 
and grandson of Anthony ana Phoebe Morris, was born in Philadelphia the 24th of June, 
1734. Of his education but little is known, he was, however, apprenticed in early life to 
Isaac Greenleaf as a merchant, but appears never to have been actively engaged in business, 
devoting rather his time and services to the legislative duties of his native city. Thoroughly 
imbued with all the feelings of the sportsman, which his English origin, and the attractive 
natural surroundings of his home, of wood and stream, could not fail to produce. Captain 
Morris entered heartily into the amusements of all associations devoted to manly exercises, 
and the sports of the field. He was one of the founders of the Schuylkill Company of ' ' Fort 
St. David," in the year 1753, and continued a member of this society during the forty years 
of its existence. He became a member, inthe year 1754, of the now venerable Schuylkill 



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Company of the "State in Schuylkill," and on October nth, 1766, was elected Governor of 
that institution, and held this position by unanimous yearly re-election to the day of his 
death, a period of forty-six years. Here, as at all other places and times, was he distin- 
guished for cheerfulness of disposition, courtesy and dignity of deportment and great kind- 
ness of heart; and at all meetings of the old " Fish House," is "the memory of our late 
worthy Governor Morris" drank after "the memory of Washington." 

Upon the organization of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, in the year 1 766, Captain 
Morris was chosen President, and continued in that office until his death ; he was always 
spoken of as a bold and fearless horseman, and until prevented by the infirmities of age, was 
an active participant in all the hunts of the Club. When no longer able to join the parties 
on horseback, he frequently made his appearance on the field in the midst of his old com- 
panions of the Club, many of whom had been also his endeared comrades in arms, riding 
in a chaise ; at such times, in order to gratify their much loved chief, the hunting ground 
was selected where roads and clearings occasionally afforded him a chance of a view. 

Captain Morris was one of the twenty-eight gentlemen who associated themselves to 
form the Troop in the year 1774, and on the day of its organization, was elected to the 
position of Second Lieutenant and Adjutant. Early in the year 1776, upon the enforced 
retirement of Captain Markoe, he was chosen to fill the vacant position, and continued to 
hold the office until April nth, 1786, when he resigned and was placed on the Honorary 
Roll. The following is his letter of resignation : 

Philadelphia, April nth, 1786. 

" Gentlemen: 

This being the day appointed for a new choice of officers, I take this opportunity of 
returning you my sincere Thanks for the Honour you have done me for Ten years past in 
chusing me to the command of the Philadelphia Troop, and at the same time of Resigning 
my place as a member thereof, not owing to any want of Respect for the Troop, but to my 
bodily Infirmities which are such as to put it out of my Power, with propriety to continue 
any longer in your Respectable Corps. I shall ever Retain the highest Esteem for the Gen- 
tlemen of the Troop, and am with great Respect, 

Their Real Friend & 
very humble Serv'., 

Sam' Morris. 

To the gentlemen of the Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse." 

Through the entire period of the Revolution he faithfully served his country as 
a soldier and as a counsellor, he having been appointed a member of the Committee of 
Safety, June 30th, 1775, and appears to have been in constant attendance at its meetings 
when not in the field with his Troop. He was appointed August i6th, 1775, one of the City 



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Committee of Inspection and Observation, and was a member of the Assembly of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1776 and in 1781, '82, and '8^. 

Captain Morris being of Quaker parentage, violated the principles of the Society of 
Friends in taking up his sword for his country, and was in consequence disowned by them, 
he nevertheless continued to wear their distinctive costume and to regularly attend their 
places of worship. He died July 7th, 1S12, at his residence in South Second Street, and 
the Troop attended his funeral in citizens dress. The newpapers of that day bear witness 
to the esteem in which he was held by his fellow townsmen. 

Captain Morris married Rebecca Wistar, and left seven sons and two daughters, and is 
now represented in the Troop by two great great grandsons. The likeness is a copy of an 
engraving by the artist, St. Memin, a Frenchman, at that time a resident of Philadelphia. 



Samuel Miles. 1786 — 1791. 

Samuel Miles, the third Captain of the Troop, was born on the 22nd of March, 1739, 
probably in Philadelphia. His father and mother were both born in this country, and his 
grandfather and grandmother on both sides were from Radnorshire, Wales; they emigrated 
with William Penn on his first voyage in 1682. Captain Miles received an ordinary edu- 
cation, reading, writing and a superficial knowledge of figures, and assisted his brothers in 
their work as carpenters. In the fall of 1755, after Braddock's defeat, the inhabitants of 
Northampton and other frontier counties requiring protection against the Indians, several 
companies of militia were formed, in one of which Captain Miles entered as a volunteer. 
This Company was raised by Isaac Wayne, the father of General Anthony Wayne. All the 
troops were under the command of General Dr. Benjamin Franklin for a short period, and 
their time was occupied during the winter in erecting stockade forts. These troops were 
discharged in February, 1756. 

Shortly after this an act of Assembly authorized the raising of two Battalions of troops, 
and Captain Miles again took up the sword, joining as a Sergeant a company in command 
of Captain Thomas Lloyu. At John Harris' on the Susquehanna, (now Harrisburg) he 
was selected to attend the Commander-in-Chief, Robert Hunter Morris, Governor of the 
Province, as Orderly Sergeant, and was shortly after commissioned as Ensign by Governor 
Morris ; he was then but seventeen years of age. 

Captain Miles continued with this body of troops, moving from place to place and 
building forts, &c., until 1758. In that year the second expedition against Fort du Quesne 
was undertaken, and his battalion joined the British army at Carlisle, he having at this time 
command of his old company. ~ During the two following years he was engaged in active ser- 
vice against the French and Indians in the western part of Pennsylvania, and in 1 760, obtained 



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a Captain's commission. He recruited a company and was put in command of the garrison 
at Presque Isle on Lake Erie where he remained until December 12th, 1760, when he left 
with all the Pennsylvania troops, and reached Philadelphia on 26th January, 1761. 

Captain Miles was married February i6th, 1 761, in Philadelphia and settled in that city, 
engaging in the wine and dry goods business. In 1766 he was elected one of the wardens 
of the city, and at the end of three years was elected one of the commissioners of the city 
and county of Philadelphia. In 1772 he was elected a member of the General Assembly, 
but in 1 774 declined serving in the Legislature, and having purchased a plantation at Spring 
Mills, Montgomery County, retired to the country. 

Captain Miles took an early and active part in the opposition of the Colonies to the 
mother country, and his presence was considered a valuable acquisition at all meetings held in 
the county to oppose the arbitrary acts of Great Britain. He raised, at White Marsh, the 
second company of militia formed in Pennsylvania at this period, and upon the organization of 
these and other companies into battalions and regiments was elected Colonel. In 1775 ^^ 
was prevailed upon to serve in the General Assembly and Council of Safety, which he did until 
the spring of 1776, when he was appointed to the command of a regiment of a thousand 
riflemen. After being actively employed in suppressing insurrections in various parts of the 
country, he was finally ordered with his regiment to join the army at New York. Having 
been sent to Long Island to watch the movements of the Highlanders and Hessians, he was 
taken prisoner on the 27th of August, 1776, owing, as he himself states, to bad generalship 
on the part of General Sullivan, who was in command. He was a prisoner until April, 
1778, when he was exchanged. While a prisoner he was appointed a brigadier-general by 
the Council of Safety, but failing on his return to the army to receive a command equal to 
his rank, retired to his farm. 

He subsequently held the position of deputy quarter master general, and was also one of 
the auditors for settling the public accounts. In 1783 he was appointed one of the Judges 
of the HighCourt of Errors and Appeals; in 17S7 was elected a member of the Council of 
Censors, and in 17S8 became a member of the Executive Council. He was elected a mem- 
ber of the Troop in March, 1783, and became Captain in 17S6, holding the position until 
1 791, when he resigned and was placed on the Honorary Roll. 

In 1 789 he became an alderman of the city, and in 1 790 was elected mayor ; being 
elected to the mayorality a second time he declined, and in 1792 purchased the Cheltenham 
farm on Tacony creek and there retired from public life. His last public act was serving as 
an elector in the Presidential election which was held after General Washington's second 
term, when he and Mr. Robert Coleman, both Federalists, cast their votes for Thomas 
Jefferson. In 1783 he became a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Captain Miles was a large land owner in Centre Co., Pa., and there laid out the 
flourishing village of Milesburgh. He died at Cheltenham, Montgomery Co., December 



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29th, 1805. In 1798 his son Samuel was elected a member of the Troop. The likeness of 
Captain Miles is a copy of an oil painting in possession of Mrs. M. F. McKean, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 



Christian Febiger. 1792 — 1794. 

Christian Febiger, the fourth Captain of the Troop, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 
in the year 1746, and held a subaltern's commission in the Danish service. In early life he 
came to America with his father, who had received the appointment of Governor of Santa 
Cruz, West Indies. Captain Febiger was engaged in trading between the Island of St. 
Thomas and Boston when the war of the revolution began. Upon the receipt of the 
news of the battle of Lexington, he sold his vessel, offered his services to the Committee of 
Safety in Boston, and was, April 2Sth, 1775, given a commission as Lieutenant. 

In the battle of Bunker Hill, 17th of June, he was in command of a portion of Gerrish's 
regiment with the rank of Adjutant, and did eminent service in protecting our shattered 
forces on their retreat towards Cambridge. He is spoken of at this time by Frothingham 
in his " History of the Siege of Boston," etc , as- a gallant Danish soldier who had seen 
service, and special mention is made of his valuable service on that occasion. 

In September following, having been promoted to the rank of Major, he joined the 
detachment of troops (iioo men) under Colonel Benedict Arnold, which set out to co-ope- 
rate with General Montgomery in the invasion of Canada. This little army was reduced to 
less than one half its original number by famine, and Gordon, in his History of Pennsylva- 
nia, states that it became so " destitute of provisions that some of the men ate their dogs, 
cartouche boxes, breeches and shoes." They arrived at Point Levy on the river St. Law- 
rence after a march of three hundred miles through the trackless wilderness of Maine, along 
the Kennebec and Chaudiere rivers. " It was an effort in the cause of freedom worthy of 
its divine character, and the men who thus perilled life and endured pain * * * 
deserve the highest praise from the hearts and lips of posterity." ' On November, 1775, 
they attempted the capture of Quebec by an assault, but failing, they retired a short distance 
down the river and awaited the arrival of General Montgomery. With his command (in 
all a force of less than 800 men) they again attacked the town, December 31st, when, 
Montgomery having been killed and Arnold wounded, they were repulsed, and Febiger, 
with the majority of the command, was taken prisoner and kept in close confinement. He 
was released on the loth of August, 1776 and sailed from Quebec in the Pearl frigate, 
reaching New York on the nth of September and thence proceeded to Philadelphia. In 
the history of this campaign by Judge Henry, of Lancaster, who was with the expedition, 

r Lossing. — Field Book of the Revolution. 



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in the criticism of the conduct of Arnold and the other officers in the first attack on 
Quebec, Fcbiger is spoken of as "a. real and well instructed soldier and an engineer." 

On the i6.th of November, 1776, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel, and placed in 
command of the 2nd Regnnent, Virginia Line, at Williamsburg, Long Island. He par- 
ticipated in the battles around New York city, and was in the rear guard which covered the 
army in its subsequent retreat through New Jersey. He took part in the engagements at 
Trenton and vicinity in the early part of the year 1777, and in the autumn was rn command 
of his regiment at the battle of the Brandywine, and other engagements in that neighbor- 
hood. He was with the army in the memorable encampment at Valley Forge from January 
to March, 1778, and afterwards, in June of the same year, at the battle of Monmouth, 
"N. J., commanded 1700 men and four pieces of artillery. In the winter of 1778-9 he w^as 
in quarters at Middle Brook, N. J., from whence he marched to the Hudson and encamped 
near Fort Montgomery in May. 

One of the most memorable events in the life of Captain Febiger was his presence at 
the brilliant assault and capture of Stony Point, July i6th, 1779. He was in command of 
all the Virginia troops engaged, having charge of the right wing on that occasion, from which 
were selected the front platoon of the forlorn hope, and the front of the vanguard. In a 
characteristic letter to his wife, dated Fort Wayne, Stony Point, July i6th, 1779, he says: 

"My dear Girl, — I have just borrowed pen, ink and paper, to inform you that yester- 
day we marched from Fort Montgomery, and at 12 o'clock last night we stormed this con- 
founded place, and with about 14 killed and 40 or 50 wounded we carried it. I can give 
you no particulars as yet. A mosquoet ball scraped my nose, no other damage to old Den- 
mark. God bless you. 

Farewell, Febiger." 

And in a subsequent letter, giving the details of the engagement, he says, " the bravery 
of our men soon overcame all dangers, and about one o'clock we were in full possession of 
the Fort, when I had the pleasure of taking Col. Johnson, who commanded, myself, and 
ordered him to his tent. ' ' 

After two years passed in various camp, recruiting and post duties, he was present at 
the capture of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. After the surrender he was in 
garrison at Cumberland Old Court House until May 2nd, 1782, and continued in the army 
as Colonel of the 2nd Virginia regiment until the end of the war, when he settled in Phila- 
delphia. In a letter to his brother-in-law, Colonel O'Hara, he says, -''Congress were 
pleased to confer on me the rank of Brigadier-General, however this title I have never, nor 
don't wish to make use of, as that of Colonel in this country is familiar and agrees tnuch 
better with a merchant." On the 24th of April, 1786, he was elected a member of the 
Troop, and was chosen Captain in 1792. On the 5th of April, 1794, he sent to the Com- 



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pany the following letter of resignation, which for reasons therein stated, was accepted and 
his name placed upon the Honorary Roll : 

"To the Officers & Members of the old City Troop, 

Gentlemen: — ■ 

When just preparing to meet you at Mr. Richardetts, I am call'd to attend a piece 
of public business This gives me much Concern, Butt Gentlemen not to be compar'd with 
other Emotions that have lately agitated my Breast in a relative Situation with you. I have 
been a Soldier, risen to Rank, and perhaps some Reputation. 

the highest honor conferr'd on me, was I conceive the first Information I recev'd from 
our late venerable & worthy Captain of my being unanimously elected a member of the truly 
hon'ble old City Troop. Here I became more intimately acquainted with Gentlemen whom 
I, during the War, had been in the Habit of respecting in their private Characters. Butt 
how much more exalted is the Idea, when I view them as Patriots. I will venture to say, 
and with Truth, that it was the first Corps in the World, that establish'd itself on the same 
Principles & the noblest of all Purposes that ever engag'd the Warrior's Arm. 

Men of Wealth quitt the Lap of Fortune, resign'd domestick Peace and Happiness 
became the Champions of their Country, its Liberties and their Posterity, they satt an ex- 
ample to the vigorous Youth now of that Corps, worthy of Imitation. 

Gentlemen, I grant you are at present a little derang'd. Butt appoint your Officers, 
assist them in the Execution of their Duty and all will yett be right. There are Gentlemen 
among you perfectly equal to the Task ; from the foregoing Considerations, you must be con- 
vinc'd I feel Pain inexpressible in informing you, that owing to my miserable State of 
Health I can be of no Service either as an Officer or a Private, I must with Sorrow bury the 
old Soldier and bid you Adieu as an active Member, with your Permission I beg one Boon. 

Should our Dearest Country ever again demand our Services and my Health allow it, 
lett me join your Ranks fully equipp'd as I shall allways keep myself 

You can & I trust will easier feel than I can express with how much Respect & Esteem 

I am, Gentlemen, 

Your most obedient 

Friend & humble Serv't, 

Christian Febiger. " 

Captain Febiger's name was always pronounced as though spelled Fcebeker, but in the 
army he was invariably called " Old Denmark." This statement was made to the family by 
La Fayette, when their guest on his visit to Cincinnati in 1S24. By appointment of the 
Supreme Executive Council he held the office of Auctioneer for the Northern Liberties from 
November, 1787, to March, 1789, and from November, 1789, by successive yearly appoint- 
ments of the Legislature, the office of Treasurer of the Commonwealth until his death. 



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Captain Febiger married in the year 1778, Elizabeth, daughter of William Carson, 
keeper of the "Harp & Crown," Third Street and Elbow Lane, a well known and much 
respected citizen who filled several positions by appointment of the Council of Safety during 
the War of the Revolution, and whose son, Dr. John Carson, was afterwards Surgeon of the 
Troop; he died September 20th, 1796, in the fiftieth year of his age. 

Captain Febiger was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, and 
was an original subscriber to the first Chestnut Street Theatre, and many other enterprises 
of his day. The likeness is a copy of a miniature oil painting in possession of his family. 



John Dunlap. 1794 — 1S03. 

John Dunlap, the fifth Captain of the Troop, was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, 
Ireland, in 1747. His family emigrated to America when he was but eight or nine years of 
age, and settled in Philadelphia. At the age of eighteen, having served an apprenticeship 
of about ten years with his uncle William Dunlap, printer and publisher, of this city, 
who was about this time admitted to orders in the Church of England and went to Virginia, 
he assumed his business, and in November, 1771, issued in Philadelphia the first number of 
" The Pennsylvania Packet or General Advertiser." From September, 1777, to July, 1778, 
while the British were in possession of Philadelphia, his newspaper, devoted to the cause of 
.the Colonies against the mother coimtry, was published at Lancaster. Captain Dunlap was 
elected printer to the Convention which met at Philadelphia before the Revolution, and 
continued to hold that position after the permanent establishment of Congress. While in 
that capacity he had the high distinction of first publishing the Declaration of Independence. 

Captain Dunlap has the honor of having been one of the original members of the 
" First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry," at its formation in 1774. He was elected to the 
post of Cornet in 1775, and to that of First Lieutenant in 1781, and served with distinction 
in all the actions in which the Troop was engaged. Having twice declined the position of 
Captain in favor of those who had held higher positions during the Revolutionary War, he 
finally was induced to accept the post on the 1 2th of April, 1 794, although a higher military 
rank in another organization was offered him at the time, thus showing his preference and 
love for the Troop. 

In the "Whiskey Insurrection" of 1794, the command of all the cavalry was given to 
Captain Dunlap, who held the rank and title of Major during the campaign. He was noted 
on this expedition not only for his strict adherence to discipline and duty as a soldier, but 
for his kindness and humanity as a man. Upon the return of the military he re-assumed 
his position as Captain, and held the post until June .50th, 1803, when, after good service in 
the Troop for twenty-nine years, he resigned, and was placed upon the Honorary Roll. 



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By his talents and industry he amassed a large fortune. He purchased from the State of 
Virginia 98,000 acres of land, in what is now the State of Kentucky, and owned the land 
on which the town of Utica, Indiana, is now built; in the city of Philadelphia he owned the 
square of ground between Market and Chestnut, and Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, now 
part of the Girard estate, and the greater part of the ground on the north side of Chestnut 
Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets. He was a member of the Common Council 
of the city between the years 17S9— 92. Captain Dunlap was married in 1772 at Christ 
Church, Philadelphia, to Elizabeth Allison, {nee Hayes), widow of Captain Allison, of 
England. She came to this country in 1771 with her father from Liverpool. Captain 
Dunlap died on the 27th of November, 181 2, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and was buried 
with the honors of war at Christ Church burying ground, Fifth and Arch Streets. The 
likeness of Captain Dunlap is a copy of an oil painting by Rembrandt Peale in possession 
of Captain Dunlap's grandson, John D. Bleight, Esq. 



Robert Wharton. 1S03 — 181 1. 

Robert Wharton, the sixth Captain of the Troop, was born in the old District of South- 
wark, Philadelphia, January 12th, 1757, in the Wharton mansion, which was situated in the 
country near the site of the present (1874) Navy Yard, and which became so noted as the 
scene of the " Meschianza," during the occupation of the city by the British in 1778. His 
father, Joseph AVharton, was born in Philadelphia in 1707, and was the son of Thomas 
Wharton, of Westmoreland, England, and Rachel, his wife, of Monmouthshire, Wales. 

Captain Wharton was in early life apprenticed to his uncle. Carpenter Wharton, hatter, 
but does not appear to have been as attentive to his trade as he was to the indulgence of his 
fondness for the sports of the chase and field. He was an active member of the famous 
Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, and had been for many years its President when in 1S28 the 
club was dissolved. Captain Wharton also joined the old Schuylkill Fishing Company in 
1790, and became its Governor in 181 2, which position he held for sixteen years resigning 
at last only when the infirmities of age prevented him from attending to the duties of the 
office; in both of the above clubs he succeeded Captain Morris as their presiding officer. 

Captain Wharton was elected a member of the Troop on the 19th of June, 179S, and 
shortly afterwards, having obtained permission from the Company to temporarily withdraw, 
he organized and was appointed Captain of "The Volunteer Troop of Light Dragoons." 
When this company was disbanded, in iSoi, he was re-admitted to his membership in the 
Troop, and became Captain on the 15th of August, 1803, without having served in any of 
the intermediate grades. During his captaincy, October 17th, 1818, by the requirments of 
the Militia Laws of Pennsylvania, the Troop chose to be attached to the soth Regiment, 



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but subsequently the six troops of horse of the city and county of Philadelphia having 
united and formed a regiment of cavalry, he was elected Colonel, June 14th, 18 10, and 
thereupon placed upon the Honorary Roll of the Troop. 

In iSi I Colonel Wharton was elected Brigadier General of the ist Brigade, ist Division 
Pennsylvania Militia which position he held but for a short time, as the law was changed shortly 
afterward, making the position of a general officer one of appointment instead of election, 
and by reason of a difference in politics he was deposed by the Governor. 

In the " Mount Bull Campaign," when the Troop went into active service in August, 
1814, Captain Wharton, although fifty-seven years of age, volunteered, and as. a private 
soldier served in the field under Captain Ross (his former Lieutenant). In October of the 
same year a Committee of Councils of Philadelphia, which had been appointed to wait upon 
him and inform him of his recent election for the sixth time as Mayor of the city, found 
him in camp taking his turn as company cook, and only upon their earnest solicitation was he 
induced to accept his discharge and return to Philadelphia. The honorable post of Chief 
Magistrate of the city was held by him fifteen times between the years 1798 and 1S24, and 
he was a member of the City Councils from 1792 to 1795. 

Captain Wliarton married Sarah Chancellor, and died in the year 1834. He had but 
one child, a son, who died before his father. The likeness of Captain Wharton is a copy 
of a lithograph in the " Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company." 



Charles Ross. 181 i — 18 17. 

Charles Ross, the seventh Captain of the Troop, was born on October sth, 1772, at 
"the Grange," the country seat of his father, John Ross, in Delaware County, Pennsyl- 
vania. He was of Scotch descent, his grandfather being a native of Scotland, and an 
officer in the British army, who had fought in the war in the Netherlands, and subsequently 
under Wolff", was present at the battle of Quebec when the British standard was planted on 
the Heights of Abraham. In 1745 he came to this country. His son John, the father of 
Captain Ross was a merchant of high standing, and a large ship owner, trading in India 
goods. At the breaking out of the Revolution he warmly espoused the cause of American 
independence, and became a banker in South Carolina, being subsequently sent from that 
State as a delegate to Congress. 

Charles Ross, the subject of this sketch, became, like his father, an eminent merchant 
in the East India trade ; he had also made six voyages to China as supercargo, and part 
ship owner of the Caledonia, to repair by adventure, the once opulent but reversed fortunes 
of an endeared widowed mother and sisters. He joined the Troop May 12th, 1794* and 



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continued an active member until his death. He was a gentleman of great bravery and 
high tone, and was especially beloved by his military associates. He was one of the mem- 
bers under Captain Dunlap on the expedition to quell the Whiskey insurrection in Western 
Pennsylvania. Having passed through all the lower grades and served as Cornet and First 
Lieutenant, he was finally elected Captain on October i8th, iSii. He was in command of 
the Troop in the "Mount Bull Campaign " of 1814, and received the highest encomiums 
for the admirable manner in which he had conducted the campaign, and the thorough con- 
dition of order and discipline in which he had preserved his command, and for the efficient 
services he had rendered his country. 

Captain Ross was at the time of his death, and had been for many years an active and 
worthy member of the old and honorable Schuylkill Fishing Company, and presented 
the club on May ist, 1812, with the handsome "Ross Punch Bowl," which was ordered by 
him in China expressly for the " State in Schuylkill," and which has been in constant use 
since that date. Captain Ross possessed a manly, athletic form, rough features and a 
robust constitution, and was a master spirit in the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, in 
which he was wont to be one of the most ardent in the chase and liveliest at the banquet. 
Blessed with amiability of manners, and endeared with a disinterested generosity of princi- 
ple, which governed his every action in life, his agreeable society was earnestly sought and 
fondly cherished by all. He continued as Captain of the Troop until his death, which oc- 
curred October Sth, 1817, from disease contracted on shipboard, occasioned by the unavoid- 
able use of impure water. His funeral was one of the largest both military and civil 
that had ever been witnessed in the city, and the members of the Troop in memory of his 
eminent services, and from feelings of sincere regard, erected to his memory a handsome 
monument, over his last resting place in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church, 
near the corner of Fourth and Pine Streets. This monument is of white marble surmounted 
by a bronze trophy of arms modeled and cast in Philadelphia, (a creditable instance of the 
early acquaintance with this branch of industry in this city,) and its four sides bear the 
following inscriptions: 

North side] This Monument 

is erected by the Members of the 

" First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry," 

Friends and Associates 

of their late Commander, Charles Ross ; 

of which Troop 

He was a member 23 years, 

and Captain 6 years. 



Consecrated 
by Friendship to departed worth. 



The virtues 

of the 

Brave and Honourable 

we cherish. 

East side] Sacred 

to the memory of 
Charles Ross. 



How sleep the brave who sink to rest, 
By all their country's wishes blest. 



The body decays; but the immortal 

Soul awaits the last trumpet's 

joyful sound. 

West side] I" 

Memoriam, 

Caroli Ross, Equitis 

Turmae Equitum Duels, 

Qui Natus est Vto Octobris 

MDCCLXXn 

Obiit Vnivo Octobris 

MDCCCXVII 

Etatis suae 

XLVI. 

South side] In the field, to the manly virtues of 

the soldier he joined the discipline, honour 

and deportment of the officer. In private 

life, the urbanity of the gentleman, the 

valuable qualities of the useful citizen, 

dutiful son, affectionate brother, sincere 

friend governed his conduct. Noble, 

generous, honourable, intrepid, he departed 

in the prime of life. 

It is left for us to mourn his loss, to 

emulate his character, and by this testimony 

of our affection, to show our respect for his 

talents and his virtues. 



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John R. C. Smith. 18 17 — 1825. 

Robert Smith, the father of the subject of the present sketch, having been an officer of 
the Troop, deserves some brief mention here; he was born in the city of New York, Novem- 
ber 20th, 1752, and at an early period of the War of the Revolution was elected Captain of a 
company of Scotchmen, and, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr, was 
in the engagements on Long Island, was wounded at White Plains and afterwards accom- 
panied the army under Washington in the retreat through New Jersey. He then received 
a commission as Major, but from ill health, induced by exposure, he was for some time com- 
pelled to retire from active service. In the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, (1778), he 
was again engaged as a volunteer; toward the close of the war he settled in Philadelphia 
and joined the Troop as a private in 17S1, and rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant in 
1796, which position he held until 1S03, when he resigned and was placed on the Honorary 
Roll. He ended a long and useful life in Philadelphia, April 15th, 1838, having served in 
many positions of trust and honor. 

John R. C. Smith was born in Philadelphia in March, 17S3, and graduated at Prince- 
ton College, New Jersey. Upon leaving college he entered the mercantile house of 
Willing and Francis, and displayed marked ability and care in conducting the business of 
that firm, receiving the highest praise from his employers, who sent him to Canton and 
Brazil upon different occasions as supercargo. Captain Smith joined the Troop May 20th, 
1805, and during the "Mount Bull Campaign " of 1814, held the post of ist Sergeant and 
Orderly. Having risen by successive promotions, he was finally elected Captain, October 
27th, 1817. On the 13th of June, 1822, a squadron of cavalry was formed by the junction 
of the ist and 2nd troops of horse in this city, and Captain Smith was elected Major of the 
same. He was much beloved for his amiable qualities and soldierlike characteristics, and 
the Troop, as a token of their regard, presented him witli a handsome sword, hangings, and 
horse equipments on the 17th of November, 1823. An unfortunate occurrence of apparent 
disobedience of orders on his part called for a Court Martial, and on October 28th, 1825, 
he was broken. His explanation of the case was that he refused to obey the orders of an 
officer with whose command in his opinion he was not connected. Although deprived of 
the command of the Troop by the action of the Court, he continued as a private until April 
19th, 1826, when he was placed on the Honorary Roll. Captain Smith was Treasurer of 
the Troop from i8ii to 1824. 

Being a gentlemen of means and refined tastes, he spent the rest of his long life in the 
retirement of his home in this city, where he died on July ist, 1868, aged eighty-five, and 
was buried at the Church of St. James the Less, near the Falls of Schuylkill. Captain 
Smith, late in life, married Miss Maria Bell, who still survives him, (1874), and left no chil- 
dren. The likeness of Captain Smith is a copy of the oil painting by Sully, now in posses- 
sion of the Troop, which was presented by his nieces, the Misses Buck, of Philadelphia. 



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, Lynford Lardner. 1825 — 1827. 

The grandfather of Captain Lardner, also named Lynford Lardner, came to this coun- 
try from England (1740) as Receiver General to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, was after- 
wards a member of the Provincial Council and died in the year 1774. His two sons, John 
and William were members of the Troop. John Lardner was elected in the year 1775, 
served with the Company during the War of the Revolution, and held the post of Cornet from 
1780 until the beginning of the year 1794, when he retired. In the latter part of the same 
year, having gone out with the Troop on the Western expedition as a Sergeant, he was again 
promoted to the rank of Cornet and continued to hold this position until October 24th, 
1796, when he was placed on the Honorary Roll. Five of John Lardner's sons, Lynford, 
Richard Penn, John, Jr., Alexander and Henry, became members between the years 181 3 
and 1834, of whom Second Lieutenant Richard P. Lardner alone is living, (1874). 

The eldest son, Captain Lynford Lardner, the subject of this sketch, was born at his 
father's country seat near Philadelphia, in the year 1792. He received the rudiments of his 
education at Lower Dublin Academy, and graduated June ist, 181 1, at the University of 
Pennsylvania. He soon afterwards entered the counting house of Joseph Sims, a prominent 
ship owner of Philadelphia, and remained there for several years, until being of a delicate 
constitution and his health suffering from the confinement of the office, he went on a voyage 
as supercargo in one of Mr. Sims' vessels to Scotland. His health, however, was never fully 
established, and after his return he resided for the remainder of his life on his farm near 
Frankford. He was elected a member of the Troop, April 5th, 1813, served in the Mount 
Bull campaign, and having passed through every grade from Corporal to First Lieutenant, 
he was, December loth, 1825 elected Captain. He held this position until May 21st, 1827, 
when, at a meeting of the Company, his resignation, tendered in the following letter, was 
accepted, and his name placed upon the Honorary Roll : 

"Phila. May i8th, 1827. 

To the Officers & Members of the 

First Troop of Philada. City Cavalry, 

Gentlemen : I hereby tender to you my resignation as Captain 

and active member of the Troop. Should this appear unexpected, I can only say, that I 
do it with unfeigned regret, but from my residence in the country and other uncontrolable 
circumstances, find it unavoidable. All who know me, know how highly I have been grati- 
fied by your confidence, and will readily believe with what pain I leave a Corps m which I 
have served fourteen years, among the members of which are enrolled my most valued friends, 
and in whose society I have passed some of the gayest and most happy hours of my life. 

With ardent wishes for your prosperity & happiness I remain Gentlemen, 

Your most obedient Servant, 

Lynford Lardner." 



ISO 

At the same meeting it was ******* 

"Resolved, That in testimony of the high regard and esteem which we entertain for 
our late worthy and much respected Commander, Captain Lynford Lardner, whose urbanity, 
gentlemanly and officer like deportment for a long period of services has won the universal 
regard and esteem of the members of this Corps, we do hereby vote him a silver cup or 
goblet." * * * A handsome goblet with a suitable inscription was procured 

according to this resolution, and presented with the accompanying letter: 

"The Committee, appointed by the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, to wail 
upon you with the resolutions passed at a meeting of the Troop on the 21st of May last, 
feel that they would not be conveying the sentiments of the body, by whom they are dele- 
gated, if they did not at the same time express in the most heartfelt manner, the sincere 
regret your resignation has caused to the whole Corps lately under your command. We are 
also directed to present this Cup to you as a mark of the sense unanimously entertained of 
your services as an Officer & your conduct as a gentleman during the whole time you 
remained in & commanded our Troop, and we rest assured that you will cherish and preserve 
it as a memento of that Friendship and good-will which has ever existed between you and 
the First Troop Philada. City Cavalry. 

In common with our fellow soldiers we have great pleasure in announcing to you your 
election to Honorary membership, which we trust will be considered on your part, as it is 
on ours, a strong link still connecting us together, and a pledge that should the Public interest 
again require your services, we shall see you merging the citizen into the soldier, again enrolled 
among us, defending & protecting our Country & our Banner, and discharging your duties 
as a private, as faithfully and gallantly as you did those of a Commander. 

Philadelphia, June 27th, 1827. 

D. Smith McCauley, 
W, M. Camac, 
Geo. Cadwalader, 

Committee. ' ' 

Captain Lardner was twice a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature (1S20-21, and 
1833-34), in one of which terms he was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, 
and served with great credit to himself and his constituents. 

In the year 1824 he married Elizabeth Ann, daughter of James Wilmer, merchant of 
Philadelphia, and had one son. He died at his country seat, and the Troop escorted the 
funeral procession to Oxford Church on Second Street Road, near Fox Chase, and there 
attended the ceremonies of his burial which took place on the 24th of June, 1S34. The 
portrait of Captain Lardner is a copy of a miniature oil painting in possession of his widow, 
Mrs. Lynford Lardner. 



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William H. Hart. 1827— 1842. 



William H. Hart, the tenth captain of the Troop, was born at the country residence of 
his father in Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the i6th of November, 1789. 
His ancestors were of English origin, and came to this country with William Penn on his 
first voyage. He was educated in Philadelphia, and succeeded his father as a merchant in 
the year 1808, remaining in business for thirty years, when he retired. Since then he has 
devoted much of his time to the advancement of various public institutions, and has filled 
many positions of trust and honor in the management of the principal corporations in the 

city. 

Captain Hart was elected a member of the Troop, June 2nd, 1813, and served with the 
Company in the Mount Bull campaign of 1814- After fourteen years of service in lower 
grades of rank he was chosen Captain, May 24th, 1827. On the sixty-third anniversary of 
the Troop, November 17th, 1836, the Company was entertained at the quarters of Captain 
Hart, and on this occasion there was presented to him " as a token of our remembrance of 
many days of friendly association and of our respect and admiration not less of our Captain 
than of our comrade," a cavalry sabre, richly decorated with military bas-reliefs in silver 
and bearing the motto : Contigif ex merito tibi honor. 

In 1838, in the trouble known as the "Buckshot War," the Troop marched to Harrisburg 
on the requisition of the Governor, and served th°re with the squadron of cavalry which was 
commanded by Captain Hart, who held the rank of Major during the emergency. Having 
served in the Troop twenty-nine years, Captain Hart, at the expiration of his third term of 
commission, declined a re-election as Captain and was placed on the Honorary Roll of the 
Troop September 15th, 1842. In the following year the members of the Company pre- 
sented him with a silver punch bowl and ladle "as a testimonial of the high regard in which 
he was held by all who had the pleasure to serve under him during the time he was their 
Captain." When the Troop was incorporated in the year 1863, Captain Hart was chosen 
President, and at the age of eighty-five, is still a man of wonderful health and vigor, and has 
never lost that interest in, and love for the Company, to which he devoted so many years 
of his earlier life. 

Captain Hart, following the example of so many of his predecessors in the Troop, 
became a member of the old Schuylkill Fishing Company, October 2nd, 1822; in the year 
1838 he was elected Governor of the Company, and held that office for twelve years, when 
he declined a re-election, but still retains his position on the list of active members. 

He was married in 1818 to Matilda, daughter of John Maybin, Esq., who died in 1S32, 
leaving two children; he was again married in 1840 to Mary, daughter of Jacob Sperry, (a 
member of the Troop from 1798 to 1810), who died in 1874 without issue. In the present 
generation of Troopers, Captain Hart is represented by a grandson. The likeness is a copy 
of a photograph, very recently taken at the earnest request of the Troop. 



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John Butler. 1842 — 1847. 

John Butler, the eleventh Captain of the Troop, was born in the city of Philadelphia, 
January 20th, 1806, and died at the town of Mier, Mexico, December 23d, 1847. He was 
the son of Dr. James Mease, and for certain family reasons, both he and his brother Pierce 
(also a member of the Company) changed their names to that of their maternal grandfather. 
Major Butler. The paternal grandfather of Captain Butler, John Mease, was born in Strabane, 
Ireland, and emigrated with his brother, James Mease, to this country in the year 1754, and 
both joined the Troop at its formation. John Mease was with Washington at the crossing 
of the Delaware river, December 25th, 1776, and was one of five men detailed to the ser- 
vice of keeping alive the fires along the line of the American encampment at Trenton, to 
deceive the enemy while the Americans marched by a private route to attack the British rear 
guard at Princeton, and served with the Troop through the war, and until the year 1796, 
besides having contributed largely in money to supply the army with clothing and provisions. 

Captain Butler graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1823, was elected a 
member of the Troop November 15th, 1826, and having served in the various grades, was 
chosen Captain in September, 1842, in which position he remained until his death. The 
riots which occurred in Philadelphia in 1843, ^"d in May and July, 1844, gave full oppor- 
tunity to Captain Butler for the display of that great executive ability and those soldierlike 
qualities for which he was so pre-eminently distinguished, and by the exercise of which the 
command attained to so high a degree of discipline and precision in drill, his large means 
and ample leisure being devoted to the furtherance of these ends. 

In 1847 the war with Mexico requiring volunteers. Captain Butler offered his services 
to the general government, and was appointed Captain of B. Co., 3d Regiment of United 
States Dragoons, and left for the seat of war early in the season. In the month of April the 
Troop, desirous of expressing to him their high regard and esteem, had made and sent to 
him at New Orleans, " a regulation Dragoon sword, with a silver hilt plated with gold having 
a handsome topaz set in the pommel," and both sides of the blade suitably inscribed. On 
reaching Mexico, his command was attached to that part of the army acting on the Rio 
Grande, and notwithstanding his repeated and earnestly expressed wishes to his brother-in- 
law and commander, Major-General George Cadwalader, to be placed in a position prom- 
ising more active service, the exigencies of the occasion compelled him to remain inactive, 
when, in December, he was stricken down by one of the malarious fevers peculiar to that 
country, to the fatal influences of which he at last succumbed. On January 27th, 1848, 
upon the receipt of the news of his death the following resolutions were passed. 

" Whereas, Intelligence has reached the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, of the 
death, at Mier, in Mexico, on the 23d of December last, of their beloved comrade and com- 
mander, John Butler, Captain in the 3d Regiment U. S. Dragoons. 



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Resolved, That the Troop have received the information with profound and heartfelt 
regret. 

Resolved, That the Troop desire to bear public testimony of the high estimation in 
which they held the character and conduct of their late commander. 

Resolved, That while the public can easily appreciate the gallantry, generosity, and 
devotion of Capt. Butler to his country and her flag, it is for his friends to testify to the ex- 
cellent and endearing qualities which made him respected and beloved in private life; and 
as a token of regard for his memory, the members of the Troop wear crape on the left arm 
for thirty days. 

Resolved, That the Troop offer to his bereaved family their deep condolence and sym- 
pathy; and that the Lieut-Commanding be directed to transmit to them a copy of these 
resolutions, and to request the privilege of paying to the remains of their deceased com- 
mander, upon arrival in this city, the last honors so well merited by his services in the field, 
and his noble sacrifice of life." 

His remains were brought to Philadelphia and were deposited at Christ Church yard, 
April 27th, 1848, the Troop performing the last sad duties to their beloved commander. 

Captain Butler married in 1827, Gabriella Manigault Morris, of Morrisania, New York, 
and left one child who married Julian Macalaster, Lieutenant of Ordnance U. S. A. The 
likeness of Captain Butler is a copy of a daguerreotype in possession of his family. 



Thomas C. James. 1850 — 1S63. 

Thomas C. James, the Twelfth Captain of the Troop, was born in Philadelphia, January 
8th, 1813, and died January 13th, 1863. He was the son of Thomas Chalkley James, an 
eminent physician of Philadelphia, and of Hannah Morris, his wife; he was educated at 
Friends' Classical and Mathematical School, and completed his studies at the High School as 
formerly conducted under the auspices of the Franklin Institute. For two years afterwards 
he was employed as a civil engineer on the railroad then being built between Philadelphia 
and Columbia, Pennsylvania, and in December, 1834, he entered into co-partnership with 
John T. Lewis under the mercantile firm of Lewis & James, general commission merchants, 
which was only terminated by his death. 

Captain James was elected a member of the Troop on its sixty-fifth anniversary, Novem- 
ber 17th, 1838, and having held the post of First Sergeant five years, and the commission 
of First Lieutenant three years, he was chosen Captain January, 19th, 1850. He was in 
command of the Troop during the time it was in the United States service in the year 1861, 
and immediately upon the mustering out of the Company upon its return to Philadelphia, 
received at the hands of Governor Curtin a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ninth 



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Pennsylvania Cavalry, a regiment then about organizing under the call of the President of 
the United States for three years volunteers, and soon afterwards he was ordered to the South- 
west. In the spring of 1862, he was appointed military commandant of the town of Clarks- 
ville, Tennessee, where, with a battalion of the regiment, he remained until the month of 
August, when the regiment was again united at Lebanon, Kentucky, and was employed in 
keeping that State clear of the roving bands of the enemy's cavalry. 

After the disastrous battle of Richmond, Kentucky, it covered the retreat of the Union 
army to Louisville, fighting daily the enemy's advance. Upon General Buell's arrival with 
re-enforcements for the relief of Louisville, the regiment then under the command of Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel James took the advance to Perryville, and by its boldness in pushing the enemy's 
rear, brought on the sanguinary battle fought there, enduring the fire of the enemy's infantry 
until the main body of the army came to its relief It then took the right of the line, and 
by its steadiness foiled every attempt of the enemy's cavalry to turn its flank, and in general 
orders issued after the action was complimented by the commanding General for its gallantry 
" being at one time compelled to stand for three-quarters of an hour under the concentrated 
fire of three batteries of the enemy's artillery, and only retiring when ordered to do so." 
Lieutenant-Colonel James was promoted to the Colonelcy of his regiment by commission 
dated October 14th, 1862, and his command having been much weakened by hard service 
and about one-half of the men being dismounted, he was ordered to Louisville for fresh horses 
and equipments. In the month of December Colonel James, on leave of absence, returned 
to Philadelphia, much impaired in health by his exposure in the field, with the vain hope of 
the early restoration of his broken constitution. 

On the thirteenth of January, 1863, the Troop was apprised of Colonel James' sudden 
and unexpected death that day, and met and resolved to attend his funeral in the uniform 
of the Corps. He was buried on the fifteenth of January, at South Laurel Hill Ceme- 
tery, the command being in citizen's dress at the request of his family. At a subsequent 
meeting of the Troop, appropriate resolutions of regret were passed and entered upon the 
Minutes, setting forth the respect, love and estimation in which he was held by the Com- 
pany, and at the same time was read a copy of the resolutions of a meeting of the officers 
of his late command in Nicholasville, Kentucky, which expressed their sorrow at the loss of 
the Colonel, and testified to his cool intrepidity in battle, and his cheerful endurance of the 
hardships of a soldier. The Troop caused to be painted a portrait of Captain James, which 
now hangs in the Armory, and is a speaking likeness of the original, and also erected over 
his grave a granite monument, bearing on its face bronze trophies of the arms and uniform 
of a Captain of the Troop, which was dedicated with imposing ceremonies, December 7th, 
1870, in the presence of a large number of the Honorary, Active, Non-active and Ex-mem- 
bers of the Company. The likeness of Captain James is a copy of the oil painting by 
Waugh referred to above. 



155 
Fairman Rogers. i866 — 1869. 

Fairman Rogers, the thirteenth Captain of the Troop, was born in the city of Phila- 
delphia, November 15th, 1833. His father, the late Evans Rogers, was a descendant of an 
old Quaker family of Chester County, Pennsylvania, which originally emigrated from Essex 
County, England, and was a prominent merchant in Philadelphia ; he married a daughter of 
Colonel Gideon Fairman, of Philadelphia, engraver. Captain Rogers graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania in the year 1853, and while there, having devoted himself to the 
study of mathematics and mechanics, he was immediately upon leaving college chosen one 
of the lecturers in the Franklin Institute, which position he held for eleven years. In the 
winter of 1854--55 he was connected with the United States coast survey, and accompanied 
Professor Bache on an expedition to Florida to establish the Primary bases in that section, 
and in the summer of 1857 he was on similar duty on the coast of Maine. In the autumn 
of 1855, he was elected Professor of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, 
resigning in the year 187 1, when he became a member of the Board of Trustees, which posi- 
tion he still holds. 

Captain Rogers was elected a member of the Troop on its eighty-third anniversary, 
November r7th, 1857. During the service of the Troop in the early part of the late war, was 
promoted to the post of First Sergeant, and April 28th, 1862, was elected Second Lieutenant. 
In the summer of this year, in command of a coast survey party of twelve officers and about 
fifty men, he completed a survey for military and naval purposes, of the lower Potomac river 
from Blackistone Island to Indian Head, a great portion of the shores of which were at that 
time in the control of the United States forces. In the month of September following he 
resigned his commission in the Troop, and shortly before the battle of Antietam (September 
17th), he joined as a volunteer engineer officer, the staff of General Reynolds, who had been 
assigned to the command of the forces raised in Pennsylvania for the defence of the State. 
He also served in a similar position on the staff of General W. F. Smith in the summer of 
1863, while that general was in command of the militia troops which were hastily collected 
from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and which made a short campaign through 
Carlisle and down on to the left flank of the Confederate army, reaching the Gettysburg 
field too late to take part in the battle. In the same year (1863), the National Academy of 
Sciences was founded by the United States Government for the purposes of the general ad- 
vancement of science and of advising the various departments of the Government on techni- 
cal matters, and Captain Rogers was appointed by the Senate one of the original fifty mem- 
bers of that body. During the war of the rebellion, as a member of the Academy, he served 
on the Commission for the adjustment of the compasses of the iron vessels of the United 
States Navy. 

Captain Rogers was elected to the position of the commanding officer of the Troop, 
January 4th, 1866, and well and faithfully performed the duty of its Captain until October 



156 

iSth, 1S69, when he resigned, owing to his numerous engagements in other matters with 
which he was actively connected, making it impossible for him to devote the time to the 
Troop which he considered should be required from its commanding officer ; he was then 
placed on the Honorary Roll. Captain Rogers has always been identified with many of the 
most prominent institutions of learning, music and sciences in the city, and at present, as a 
member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of the Fine Arts, is chairman of the 
Committee engaged in the erection of the handsome building of that Society on North 
Broad Street. He married in 1S56, Rebecca H., daughter of John F. Gilpin, Esq., of 
Philadelphia. 



M. Edward Rogers. i{ 



M. Edward Rogers, the present Captain of the Troop, was born in the city of Phila- 
delphia, January 29th, 1839. He is the son of the late William Evans Rogers, who was of 
the same Chester County family as the father of Captain Fairman Rogers, and his mother 
was Miss Harriette Phcebe Ruggles, of New York. 

Captain Rogers was elected a member of the Troop, September 14th, 1858, and re- 
ceived his first promotion by being chosen Fourth Corporal, October 4th, i860. In the 
campaign of 1861, he served with the Company as First Corporal, and May ist, 1862, was 
chosen First Sergeant, filling this post through the four succeeding years and serving with 
the Troop in its various tours of active service during that time, when the absence of the 
higher commissioned officers entailed more than ordinary importance and labor to this 
always prominent office. 

On the 4th of January, 1866, he was elected Second Lieutenant, and a month later 
First Lieutenant, holding the last commission for three years, when he resigned and was . 
placed on the Honorary Roll. Upon the retirement of Captain Fairman Rogers, he was 
elected, November 6th, 1869, to succeed him, and has since that time held the commission 
of Captain in the Troop, which position, by reason of his attention and military ability he 
has filled with credit to himself and to the command. 

Captain Rogers married, October 25th, 1866, Miss Nannie Craig Wadsworth, daughter 
of the late General James F. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, New York. 



ROLLS. 



List of Officers 



1774—1874- 



CAPTAINS. 



Abraham Markoe, 
Samuel Morris, 
Samuel Miles, 
Christian Febiger, 
John Dunlap, 
Robert Wharton, 
Charles Ross, 



1774— 1776 
1776 — 1786 
1786 — 1791 
1792— 1794 
1794— 1803 
1803 — 1811 
1811— 1817 



John R. C. Smith, 
Lynford Lardner, 
William H. Hart, 
John Butler, 
Thomas C. James, 
Fairman Rogers, 
M. Edward Rogers, 



1817 — 1825. 
1825 — 1827. 
1827— 1842. 
1842 — 1847. 
1850—1863. 

1866 — l86q. 



FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 



Andrew Allen, 
John Dunlap, 
David Lenox, 
William Hall, 
Charles Ross, 
James Crawford, 
John R. C. Smith, 
Anthony Stocker, 
Henry Harrison, 
William S. Simmons, 
Lynford Lardner, 



1774— 1776. 
1780— 1794. 
1794—1796- 
1796— 1803. 
1803 — 1811. 
i8n — 1S17. 
181 7. 

1817 — 1821. 
1821 — 1823. 
1823—1825. 
1825. 



William H. Hart, 
Edward Yorke, 
William M. C.\mac, 
John Butler, 
Peter L. Laguerenne, 
Thomas C. James, 
R. Butler Price, 
Samuel J. Randall, 
M. Edward Rogers, 
J. Francis Maher, 



1825 — 1827. 
1827— 1832. 
1833— 1839. 
1839— 1842. 
1842— 1847. 
1847— 1850. 
1850 — 1861. 
1866. 
1866—1869. 



i6o 



SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 



Samuel Morris, 
James Budden, 
John Patton, 
Thomas Leiper, 
William Hall, 
Robert Smith, 
Joseph B. McKean, 
Robert E. Griffith, 
William S. Willing, 
James Crawford, 
James L. Cuthbert, 
John R. C. Smith, 
Anthony Stocker, 
Job Bacon, 
Henry Harrison, 
William S. Simmons, 
Lynford Lardner, 



1774— 


1776. 


William H. Hart, 


1S25. 




1776— 


1781. 


Samuel N. Gray, 


1825- 


1826. 


1784— 


1787. 


Richard P. Lardner, 


1826— 


1827. 


1794- 




Edward Yorke, 


1827. 




1794— 


1796. 


Charles McEuen, 


1827 — 


1828. 


1796— 


1803 


Thomas S. Richards, 


1828— 


1832. 


1803. 




John Lardner, Jr., 


1S33- 


1839. 


1S03— 


1807 


Peter L. Laguerenne, 


1839- 


1842. 


1807— 


1809 


William Jackson, 


1842— 


1847- 


1809— 


1811 


R. Butler Price, 


1847- 


1S50. 


iSii— 


1S16 


William W. Fisher, 


1850— 


1853- 


18:6— 


1817 


Thomas Smith, 


1853- 


-1861. 


1817. 




William Camac, 


1861— 


■1862. 


1817— 


1818 


Fairman Rogers, 


1S62. 




1818— 


1821 


M. Edward Rogers, 


1866. 




1821 — 


1823 


J. Francis Maker, 


1S66— 


-1869. 


1823— 


1825 


Robert E. Randall, 


1870— 





CORNETS. 



James Mease, 
John Dunlap, 
John Lardner, 
John Patton, 
William Hall, 
John Lardner, 
Charles Ross, 
William S. Willing, 
William G. Latimer, 
Andrew Hamilton, 
Robert M. Lewis, 
John R. C. Smith, 
Anthony Stocker, 



1774—1776- 
1776— 1779. 

1779-1783- 
1783- 
1794. 

1794 — 1796 
1796— 1803 
1803 — 1807 
1807 — 1810 
1810 — 1811 
1811 — 1815 
1815 — 1816 
1816— 1817 



Job Bacon, 
Henry Harrison, 
William S. Simmons, 
Lynford Lardner, 
William H. Hart, 
Samuel N. Gray, 
Richard P. Lardner, 
Edward Yorke, 
William H. Jones, 
Thomas S. Richards, 
Daniel S. McCauley, 
William J. Leiper, 
Robert C. Hemphill, 



1817. 

1817— 1818. 
iSiS— 1821. 
1821 — 1823. 
1823 — 1825. 
1825. 

1825—1826. 
1826— 1827. 
1S27. 

1827 — 1S28. 
1828— 1831. 
1S31— 1S32. 
1833— 1839. 



i6i 



William Jackson, 
R. Butler Price, 
Thomas Smith, 
Wilson Eyre, 
William Caimac, 



1839— I S42 
1842 — 1847 
1852— 1S53 
1853— 1859 
1859 — 1861 



Samuel J. Randall, 
J. Francis Maker, 
Robert E. Randall, 
A. Loudon Snowden, 



1862 — 1866. 

1866. 

1866 — 1870. 

1870— 



SURGEONS, 



Dr. Jonathan Potts, 
Dr. John Carson, 
Dr. James S. Ewing, 
Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, 
Dr. George Gillasspy, 
Dr. Wm. p. C. Barton, 
Dr. Aaron B. Tucker, 
Dr. John Howard Hill, 



1779— 1786 
1787^1788 
1794— 1803 
1S04 — 1806 
1S06— iSoS, 
iSoS— 1813 
1813^1814 
1819 — 1820 



Dr. David C. Skerrett, 
Dr. Alfred Drake, 
Dr. Thomas F. Betton, 
Dr. Elisha J. Lewis, 
Dr. Paul B. Goddard, 
Dr. Horace Y. Evans, 
Dr. Fr.\ncis F. Maury, 



1821— 1827. 
1828 — 1830. 
1833—1843- 

1843— 1847. 
1847— 1866. 
1867—1869. 
1869— 



ASSISTANT SURGEONS. 



Dr. Thomas Bond, Jr., 1779 — 1786. 

Dr. Bern.-vrd Henry, 1S54 — 1864. 

Dr. William H. Taggart, 1859 — 1867. 



Dr. R. M. Townsend, 
Dr. Hext M. Perry, 



1874.' 
1874— 



FIRST SERGEANTS. 



Thomas Leiper, 
Samuel Howell, Jr., 
James Gibson, 
Richard Rush, 
Andrew Hamilton, 
James L. Cuthburt, 
John R. C. Smith, 



1774- 
1794. 
1798. 
1804. 
1808. 
1810. 
1811. 



Anthony Stocker, 
Job Bacon, 
Henry Harrison, 
William S. Simmons, 
William W. Fisher, 
Lynford Lardner, 
Charles Norris, 



1815. 
1816. 
1817. 
1817. 
1818. 
1819. 
1821. 







162 




John Elfreth, 


1822 


Manlius G. Evans, 


1850. 


Frederick Seckel, 


1823 


Harrison Smith, 


1851. 


Samuel N. Gray, 


1824 


Thomas Smith, 


1852. 


Richard P. Lardner, 


1825 


Wilson Eyre, 


1852. 


Owen Sheridan, 


1825 


W. Seward Randall, 


1853- 


Edward Yorke, 


1826 


William Camac, 


185S. 


William H. Jones, 


1826 


Charles J. Adams, 


1S59. 


Charles McEuen, 


1827 


Richard G. Devereux, 


i86i. 


Francis G. McCauley, 


1827 


Fairman Rogers, 


1861. 


Daniel S. McCauley, 


1827 


M. Edward Rogers, 


1S62. 


William M. Camac, 


1828 


Edwin L. Reakirt, 


1866. 


John Butler, 


1833 


John W. Grigg, 


1867. 


R. Butler Price, 


1839 


Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., 


1868. 


Thojl^s C. James, 


1842 


James J. Macdowell, 


1872. 


Charles Penrose, 


1847 


Jos. Lapsley Wilson, 


1874. 


William W. Fisher, 


1850 








SECOND SERGEANTS. 




William Hall, 


1774 


Samuel N. Gray, 


1823. 


Robert Smith, 


1794 


Richard P. Lardner, 


1823 




David H. Conyngham, 


1796 


George T. Stuckert, 


1825 




Robert Irwin, 


1798 


Edward Yorke, 


1825 




John Vaughan, 


1803 


William H.Jones, 


1S26 




Enoch Wheeler, 


1807 


Edward Penington, Jr., 


1827 




James Hamilton, 


1810 


John Lardner, Jr., 


1827 




John W. Morrell, 


1811 


Peter L. Laguerenne, 


1834 




Anthony Stocker, 


1811 


William Penington, 


1839 




Job Bacon, 


1815 


Washington Keith, 


1842 




Edward Twells, 


1817 


Benjamin W. Ingersoll, 


1S44 




William S. Simmons, 


1817 


Manlius G. Evans, 


1850 




William W. Fisher, 


1817 


Harrison Smith, 


1850 




Lynford Lardner, 


1818 


John Sergeant, Jr., 


1852 




Charles P. Fox, 


1819 


W. Seward Randall, 


1853 




Charles Norris, 


1821 


Henry J. Biddle, 


1853 




William H. Hart, 


1822 


John C. Leiper, 


1855 





1 63 



Joshua C. Lawrence, 
Edward C. Wharton, 
Robert Thompson, Jr., 
Alfred W! Rogers, 
Richard G. Devereux, 
William D. Smith, 
J. Francis Maher, 
Robert E. Randall, 



I8SS 
1858, 

1859 
1859 
i860 
1861 
1862 
1866 



John W. Grigg, 
John A. Brown, Jr., 
J. LiNDLEY Johnson, 
P. Frederick Goddard, 
Thos. Wm. Neill, 
Jos. Lapsley Wilson, 
John Hockley, Jr. , 



1866. 

1867. 
1868. 
1870. 
1872. 

1873- 
1874. 



THIRD SERGEANTS, 



John Donnaldson, 
David H. -Conyngham, 
Michael Keppele, 
William G. Latimer, 
Ja^ies Hamilton, 
John W. Motirell, 
Robert M. Lewis, 
Thomas F. Leaming, 
Job Bacon, 
Henry Harrison, 
Edward Twells, 
William S. Simmons, 
William W. Fisher, 
Lynford Lardner, 
Charles P. Fox, 
Charles Norris, 
John Elfreth, 
William H. Hart, 
Frederick Seckel, 
Richard P. Lardner, 
John R. Wucherer, 
George T. Stuckert, 
Owen Sheridan, 
William H. Jones, 



1777- 
1794. 
1798. 
1803. 
1S07. 
1810. 
iSii. 
1811. 
1815. 
1815. 
1816. 
1817. 
1817. 
1817. 
1818. 
1819. 

1821. 

1821. 

1822. 

1823. 

1823. 

1825. 

1825. 

1825. 



Charles McEuen, 
Thomas S. Richards, 
Daniel S. McCauley, 
James B. Taggart, 
Samuel M. Leiper, 
A. Hamilton Thomson, 
William Penington, 
Robert Adams, 
Henry H. Stockton, 
William Stevenson, 
THO^LAS Smith, 
W. Seward Randall, 
Henry J. Biddle, 
Alexander Biddle, 
Joshua C. Lawrence, 
William Camac, 
Robert Thompson, Jr., 
Charles J. Adams, 
J. Francis Maher, 
Charles F. Taggart, 
Robert Morris, Jr., 
Edwin L. Reakirt, 
John W. Grigg, 
John A. Brown, Jr., 



1826. 

1827. 

1827. 

1828. 

1833- 

1833- 

1834. 

1842. 

1844. 

1847. 

1850. 

1852. 

1853- 

1853- 

1855- 

1855- 

1858. 

1858. 

1859. 



1862 

1866. 

i866. 



1 64 



Harrison T. DeSilver, 1867. 

A. Louden Snowden, 1868. 

RoBT. Jarvis C. Walker, 1870. 

James J. Macdowell, 1871. 



William McCandless, 
John Hockley, Jr., 
Robert P. Dechert, 



1872. 

1873- 

1874. 



FOURTH SERGEANTS. 



Andrew Bunner, i777 

John Redman, i794' 

John Melbeck, 1796 

Enoch Wheeler, 1803 

Henry Nixon, 1807 

James Crawford, Jr., 1808 

Robert M. Lewis, 1810- 

John R. C. Smith, 1811 

John M. Scott, 181 i 

Job Bacon, 181 2, 

Henry Harrison, 1815 

Jehu R. Tunis, 1815 

William S. Simmons, 1816. 

William W. Fisher, 181 7 

Lynford Lardner, 181 7 

Charles P. Fox, 1817 

Charles Norris, 1818 

John Elfreth, 1819 

William H. Hart, 1821 

Samuel N. Gray, 1822, 

John R. Wucherer, 1823 

George T. Stuckert, 1823 

Owen Sheridan, 1825 

Edward Yorke, 1825 

Charles McEuen, 1825 

Edward Penington, Jr., 1826 

Thomas S. Richards, 1826 

Francis G. McCauley, 1827 

William M. Camac, 1827 



A. Hamilton Thomson, 
John Butler, 
William Penington, 
Alexander Lardner, 
Henry H. Stockton, 
William Stevenson, 
Alexander Bacon, 
James D. Smith, 
Henry J. Biddle, 
Alexander Biddle, 
Robert Thompson, Jr., 
William Camac, 
John J. Vanderkemp, 
Charles J. Adams, 
J. Francis Maher, 
Alfred W. Rogers, 
Richard G. Devereux, 
William D. Smith, 
Fairman Rogers, 
Samuel J. Randall, 
Robert E. Randall, 
John A. Brown, Jr., 
Harrison T. DeSilver, 
James West, Jr., 
P. Lacey Goddard, 
James J. Macdowell, 
Robert Greer, 
Robert P. Dechert, 
George Zinn, 



1829. 
1831. 

1833- 
1834. 



1847- 
1S50. 
1852. 
1853- 
1853- 
1855- 
1855- 
1858. 
1S5S. 
1859. 
1859. 
1S60. 
1861. 
1861. 
1S62. 
1863. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1870. 
1871. 

1873- 
1874. 



/ 



i65 
FIFTH SERGEANTS. 



Henry Borie, 
Alexander Biddle, 
Robert Thompson, Jr. , 
Samuel J. Randall, 
Francis S. Lewis, 
T. Wharton Fisher, 
J. Francis Maher, 
Wm. Read Fisher, 
Richard G. Devereux, 
William D. Smith, 
Jacob P. Wilson, 
Charles F. Lennig, 



1850 
1S52 
iSS3 
1853 
1S55 

isss 

1S58 
1858 
1859, 

1859 
i860 
1862 



Alfred Horner, Jr., 
John W. Grigg, 
Harrison T. DeSilver, 
James West, Jr., 
J. LiNDLEY Johnson, 
P. Frederick Goddard, 
Robert Greer, 
Thos. Wm. Neill, 
|os. Lapsley Wilson, 
George Zinn, 
Willi.\m D. Gem.mill, 



FIRST CORPORALS. 



Samuel Howell, Jr., 


1774- 


Joseph B. McKean, 


1794. 


Robert Rainey, 


1798. 


Jacob Sperry, 


1803. 


Andrew Hamilton, 


1807. 


John Warner, 


1808. 


Francis R. Wharton, 


1811. 


Matthew McConnell, Jr. , 


1812. 


Jehu R. Tunis, 


1815. 


John B. Simmons, 


1815. 


William W. Fisher, 


1816. 


Lynford Lardner, 


1817. 


Charles P. Fox, 


1817. 


Charles Norris, 


1817. 


John Elfreth, 


1818. 


William H. Hart, 


1819. 


Frederick Seckel, 


1821 


William J. Dubs, 


1822. 


Richard P. Lardner, 


1822 



George T. Stuckert, 
Charles Macalester, Jr. 
Owen Sheridan, 
Edward Yorke, 
William H. Jones, 
Edward Penington, Jr., 
Thomas S. Richards, 
Francis G. McCauley, 
John Lardner, Jr., 
James B. Taggart, 
A. Hamilton Thomson, 
John Butler, 
Samuel M. Leiper, 
William Penington, 
Alexander Lardner, 
C. Rockland Thomson, 
William Stevenson, 
Milton J. Lukens, 
William W. Fisher, 



1862. 
1863. 
1866. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1870. 
1871. 
1872. 
1873- 
1874- 



1823. 

.823. 

1825. 

1825. 

1825. 

1825. 

1826. 

1826. 

1S27. 

1827. 

1828. 

1829. 

1831. 

1833- 

1833- 

1834. 

1842. 

1844- 

1847- 







166 




Harrison Smith, 


1850 


M. Edward Rogers, 


1861. 


Henry W. Andrews, 


1850 


Alfred Horner, Jr., 


1862. 


Robert Thompson, Jr. , 


1852 


John W. Grigg, 


1862. 


Samuel J. Randall, 


1853 


John A. Brown, Jr. , 


1863. 


John C. Leiper, 


1853 


Andrew C. Cattell, 


1866. 


John J. Vanderkemp, 


1855 


J. Lindley Johnson, 


1866. 


Samuel L. Shober, 


1855 


Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr., 


1867. 


Wm. Read Fisher, 


1858 


Robt, Jarvis C. Walker, 


1868. 


Alfred W. Rogers, 


1858 


Thos. Wm. Neill, 


1870. 


William D. Smith, 


1859 


William McCandless, 


1871. 


Jacob P. Wilson, 


1859 


John Hockley, Jr., 


1872. 


Charles F. Taggart, 


i860 


William D. Gemmill, 


1873- 


Robert Morris, Jr., 


1861 


Myer Asch, 


1874. 


SECON 


D CORPORALS. 




James Hunter, 


1774 


Richard P. Lardner, 


1822. 


John Mease, 


1779 


John R. Wucherer, 


1822 




Jonathan Williams, 


1794 


Charles Macalester, Jr., 


1823 




Robert Hiltzheimer, 


1796 


Owen Sheridan, 


1823 




John Frazier, 


1798 


Edward Yorke, 


1825 




William Guier, 


1803 


William H. Jones, 


1825 




James Crawford, Jr., 


1807 


Charles McEuen, 


1825 




Edward Davies, 


1808 


Thomas S. Richards, 


1825 




G. Henry Manigault, 


1811 


Francis G. McCauley, 


1826 




Henry Harrison, 


[813 


John Lardner, Jr., 


1826 




John B. Simmons, 


1815 


Daniel S. McCauley, 


1827 




Edward Twells, 


181S 


John Butler, 


1S28 




Lynford Lardner, 


1816 


Samuel M. Leiper, 


1829 




Charles P. Fox, 


1817 


George Cadwalader, 


1831 




Charles Norris, 


1817 


A. Hamilton Thomson, 


1S32 




John Elfreth, 


1817 


William W. McMain, 


1833 




William H. Hart, 


[8i8 


Alexander Lardner, 


1833 




John Howard Hill, 


1819 


C. Rockland Thomson, 


1833 




Frederick Seckel, 


1820 


Milton J. Lukens, 


1842 




Edmund C. Watmough, 


[821. 


Charles Penrose, 


1844 





1 6; 



Joseph C. Harris, 
Wilson Eyre, 
Samuel J. Randall, 
John C. Leiper, 
Joshua C. Lawrence, 
T. Wharton Fisher, 
John B. Camac, 
Alfred W. Rogers, 
Richard G. Devereux, 
Jacob P. Wilson, 
Charles F. Taggart, 
Fairman Rogers, 
M. Edward Rogers. 



1850 
1852 
1853 
1853 

185s 
1855 



1859 
1859 



Charles F. Lennig, 
John W. Grigg, 
John A. Brown, Jr., 
James West, Jr., 
Robert E. Gray, 
Joseph R. Wilkins, Jr. 
William H. Canby, 
Alfred D. Jessup, Jr., 
William McCandless, 
Robert P. Dechert, 
R. Walter Deming, 
William F. Lewis, 



1861. 
1862. 
1862. 
1863. 

1866. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1870. 
1871. 
1873- 
1874. 



THIRD CORPORALS, 



Robert Hiltzheimer, 

John Frazier, 

John Vaughan, 

Henry Nixom, 

John Warner, 

James L. Cuthburt, 

John R. C. Smith, 

Thomas F. Leaming, 

Job Bacon, 

Henry Harrison, 

Jehu R. Tunis, 
Edward Twells, 
William S. Simmons, 
Samuel H. Jacobs, 
Charles Norris, 
John Elfreth, 
William H. Hart, 
John Howard Hill, 
Augustus Gushing, 



1794. 
1796. 
1798. 
1803. 
1807. 
1808. 
1810. 
1811. 
1811. 
1812. 
1813. 
1815. 

1815. 

1816. 

1817. 

1817. 

1818. 

1818. 

1819. 



Edmund C. Watmough, 
Clement Lee Bready. 
John R. Wucherer, 
George T. Stuckert, 
Owen Sheridan, 
Edward Yorke, 
William H. Jones, 
Charles McEuen, 
Edward Penington, Jr.; 
Francis G. McCauley, 
John Lardner, Jr., 
Matthew B. Denman, 
Samuel M. Leiper, 
George Cadwalader, 
A. Hamilton Thomson, 
Peter L. Laguerenne, 
Alexander Lardner, 
C. Rockland Thomson, 
Charles Penrose, 



1820. 

1821. 

1822. 

1822. 

1823. 

1823. 

1825. 

1825. 

.1825- 

1825. 

1826. 

1826. 

1S28. 

1829. 

1831. 

1832. 

1833- 

i833- 

1842. 



i68 



Benjamin F. Harley, 


1844- 


William C. Twells, 


1846. 


Walter C. Livingston, 


1847- 


John Sergeant, Jr., 


1850. 


John C. Leiper, 


1852. 


Joshua C. Lawrence, 


1853- 


William Camac, 


1853- 


Samuel L. Shober, 


1855- 


Samuel Bell, Jr., 


1855- 


Richard G. Devereux, 


1858. 


John Wagner, 


1858. 


Samuel H. Carpenter, Jr., 


1859. 


Fairman Rogers, 


1859. 


Robert Morris, Jr., 


i860. 


Charles F. Lennig, 


1861. 



Robert E. Randall, 1861. 

John A. Brown, Jr., 1862. 

James West, Jr., 1862. 

Andrew C. Cattell, 1863. 

Robert E. Gray, 1864. 

Joseph P. Wood, 1S66. 

William A. Borthwick, 1866. 

Henry Pepper, 1S67. 

James J. Macdowell, 1868. 

Robert P. Dechert, 1870. 

Jos, Lapsley Wilson, 1871. 

George Zinn, 1S72. 

Myer Asch, 1873. 

Harry P. Norris, 1874. 



FOURTH CORPORALS. 



John Melbeck, 


1794. 


John Vaughan, 


1796. 


Israel W. Morris, 


1798. 


John C. Browne, 


1803. 


Edward Davies, 


1807. 


John W. Morrell, 


1808. 


Thomas F. Leaming, 


1809. 


Anthony Stocker, 


iSii. 


Matthew McConnell, Jr. 


i8ii. 


Jehu R. Tunis, 


1812. 


John B. Simmons, 


1813. 


William S. Simmons, 


1815. 


William W. Fisher, 


1815. 


Charles P. Fox, 


1816 


John Elfreth, 


1817 


John Howard Hill, 


1818 



Augustus Gushing, 1818. 

Edmund C. Watmough, 1819. 

Clement Lee Bready, 1820. 

Samuel N. Gray, 1821. 

William J. Dubs, 1821. 

Richard P. Lardner, 1821. 

George T. Stuckert, 1822. 

Charles Macalester, Jr., 1823. 

Edward Yorke, 1823. 

William H. Jones, 1824. 

Charles McEuen, 1825. 

Edward Penington, Jr., 1825. 

Thomas S. Richards, 1825. 

John Lardner, Jr., 1826. 

Matthew B. Denman, 1S26. 

George Cadwalader, 1828. 







169 






A. Hamilton Thomson, 


1829 




William A. Edwards, 


1859. 


Peter L. Laguerenne, 


1831 




M. Edward Rogers, 


i860 




Benjamin F. Harley, 


1842 




Robert E. Randall, 


1861 




William C. Twells, 


1844 




Edwin A. Lewis, 


1861 




Alexander Bacon, 


1846 




George Gilpin, 


1862 




Joshua P. Haven, 


1847 




Alexander Hemsley, 


1862 




W. Seward Randall, 


1850 




Joseph P. Wood, 


1863 




Joshua C. Lawrence, 


1852 




Rudolph Ellis, 


1866 




William Camac, 


1853 




William H. Canby, 


1 866 




Francis S. Lewis, 


1853 




RoBT. Jarvis C. Walker, 


1867 




Samuel Bell, Jr., 


185s 




Robert Greer, 


1868 




Edward C. Wharton, 


1855 




Thomas J. Magill, 


1870 




John Wagner, 


1858 




William D. Gemmill, 


1872 




Sullivan A. Meredith, 


1858 




William H. Gaw, 


1873 




Charles F. Taggart, 


1859 




Roberts Vaux, 


1874. 


QUARTER-MA 


STER 


SERGEANTS. 




Levi Hollingsworth, 


1774 




Robert Thompson, Jr., 


1854. 


Samuel Penrose, 


1777 




William Camac, 


185s 


i 


John Donnaldson, 


1794 




Edward C. Wharton, 


1858 




Curtis Clay, Jr., 


1807 




Charles J. Adams, 


1859 




John Donnaldson, Jr., 


1814 




Robert Thompson, Jr. , 


1859 




Charles P. Fox, 


1822 




Richard G. Devereux, 


1859 




Frederick Seckel, 


1823 




J. Francis Maher, 


1862 




William J. Leiper, 


1826 




James West, Jr., 


1863 




William Penington, 


1833 




John W. Grigg, 


1866 


' 


Washington Keith, 


1842 




John A. Brown, Jr., 


1867 




Hugh H. Stockton, 


1844 




P. Frederick Goddard, 


1868 




William Stevenson, 


1844 




Robert Greer, 


1870 




Wilson Eyre, 


1850. 




Jos. Lapsley Wilson, 


1872 




John Sergeant, Jr., 


1852 




John Hockley, Jr., 


1874 




Henry J. Biddle, 


1853- 









I70 



DEPUTY QUARTER-MASTER SERGEANTS. 



John Donnaldson, 
Jonathan Robeson, 
Robert Irwin, 
Henry Nixon, 
Lynford Lardner, 
Augustus Gushing, 
Samuel N. Gray, 



1777 
1794, 
1798 
1814, 
1815 
i8i8 
1821 



William J. Leiper, 


1824. 


William H. Stewart, 


1850. 


Joshua C. Lawrence, 


1854- 


Edward G. Wharton, 


1857- 


J. Francis Maher, 


1858. 


William H. Ghandler, 


1867. 


J. Emlen Smith. 


1874. 



TREASURERS. 



Thomas Leiper, 


1774 


Thomas S. Richards, 


1826 


Samuel Howell, Jr., 


1794 


John Stille, Jr., 


1836 


James Gibson, 


1798 


Thomas G. James, 


1840 


Richard Rush, 


1804 


Alexander Bacon, 


1843 


Andrew Hamilton, 


1808 


W. Seward Randall, 


1852 


James L. Guthburt, 


1810 


J. Francis Maher, 


1855 


John R. G. Smith, 


1811 


Gharles F. Taggart, 


1859. 


William H. Hart, 


1824. 


Alexander Hemsley, 


1862. 


Edward Yorke, 


1826. 


William G. Baker, 


1S64. 



Honorary Roll. 



The number placed before the names refer to the Active Roll. The asterisks are before names of 



I 


Abraham Markoe, 


1776. 


4 


James Mease, 


1776. 


13 


Robert Hare, 


1776. 


15 


Henry Hill, 


1776. 


18 


John Mitchell, 


1776. 


21 


Andrew Caldwell, 


1776. 


28 


William West, Jr., 


1776. 


27 


George Fullerton, 


1776. 


16 


John Boyle, 


1777. 


24 


George Graff, 


1777. 


25 


Benjamin Randolph, 


1777. 


xo 


James Budden, 


1781. 


47 


Thomas Duncan, 


1782. 


48 Joseph Wilson, 


1782. 


54 


William Alricks, 


1782. 


55 


William Lawrence, 


T782. 


58 


Samuel Ingles, 


1782. 


83 


William Constable, 


1782. 


84 


Enos Kelso, 


1782. 


85 


William Craig, 


1782. 


86 


Charles Logan, 


1782. 


46 


Thomas C. Morris, 


1783- 


3 


Samuel Morris, 


17S6. 


60 


John Lyttle, 


1786. 



one 


rary Roll as " celebrated military or 


nava! 


ave 


rendered important service to the T 


roop." 


67 


Jonathan Potts, M. D., 


1786. 


68 


Thomas Bond, Jr., M. D., 


1786. 


73 


John Murray, 


1786. 


7 


Samuel Penrose, 


1787. 


9 


James Hunter, 


1787. 


20 


Samuel Caldwell, 


1787. 


31 


Alexander Nesbitt, 


1787. 


33 


Thomas Leaming, Jr., 


1787. 


34 


Jonathan Penrose, 


1787. 


35 


Godfrey Twells, 


1787. 


36 


Adam Zantzinger, 


1787. 


38 


John M. Nesbitt, 


1787. 


42 


George Henry, 


1787. 


5° 


Thomas Irwin, - 


1787. 


51 


Robert Roberts, 


1787. 


57 


Joseph Prowell, 


1787. 


59 


Andrew Bunner, 


1787. 


61 


Benjamin Davis, Jr., 


1787. 


62 


Joseph C. Fisher, 


1787. 


70 


David Duncan, 


1787. 


71 


John Patton, 


1787. 


72 


John Redman, 


1787. 


77 


Cadwalader Morris, 


1787. 


78 


Robert McClenachan, 


1787. 



172 



So Joseph Powell, 
8i Daniel Benezet, 
82 George Haines, 
89 James Gibbon, 
91 William Jackson, 
94 Christian Wirtz, 
96 William Brown, 
114 John Carson, M. D., 

75 Michael M. O'Brien, 
23 Blair McClenachan, 

52 Jonathan Mifflin, 

53 Isaac Cox, 

65 George Hughes, 

66 James Craig, Jr., 
69 John Barclay, 

76 Jacob Morris, 
87 Samuel Miles, 

41 William Turnbull, 
45 John Montgomery, 
74 Jacob Morgan, 

116 Thomas Moore, 
98 Christian Febiger, 

108 Thomas Proctor, 
5 Thomas Leiper, 

152 Meredith Clymer, 
1 2 John Mease, 
14 William Pollard, 
19 George Campbell, 

43 James Crawford, 
64 Matthew Irwin, 
90 William Lardner, 
97 Anthony Benezet, 

102 William Vanphul, 
30 John Lardner, 

44 David Lenox, 

8 Samuel Howell, Jr., 
17 William Tod, 
22 Levi Hollingsworth, 
26 Thomas Peters, 



1787 


37 Francis Nichols, 


1798. 


1787 


39 Patrick Moore, 


1798. 


1787 


40 Joseph Cowperthwaite, 


1798. 


1787 


49 David H. Conyngham, 


1798. 


1787 


56 Samuel Griffin, 


1798. 


1787 


63 William Nichols, 


1798. 


1787 


88 Francis Johnston, 


1798. 


1788 


92 John Caldwell, 


1798. 


1789 


no William Miller, Sr., 


1798. 


1790 


118 Robert Hopkins, 


1798. 


1790 


121 Jonathan Robeson, 


1798. 


1790 


130 Samuel Wheeler, 


1798. 


1790 


143 Jonathan Williams, 


1798. 


1790 


149 William W. Burrows, 


1798. 


1790 


150 Abraham Bickley, 


1798. 


1790 


99 John West, 


1798. 


1791. 


133 George Taylor, 


1798. 


1792 


203 William Jones, 


1800. 


1792. 


* J. Harvey Hurst, Major; 




1793- 


Brig. Inspector. 


1800. 


1793- 


11 John Dunlap, 


1803. 


1794. 


6 William Hall, 


1803. 


1794. 


79 Robert Smith, 


1803. 


1794. 


135 James S. Ewing, M. D., 


1803. 


1794. 


154 Daniel S. Delany, 


1803. 


1796. 


93 Joseph B. McKean, 


1803. 


1796. 


129 David C. Claypoole, 


1803. 


1796. 


138 Robert Andrews, 


1803. 


1796. 


160 Thomas W. Francis, 


1803. 


1796. 


i8i Israel W. Morris, 


1803. 


1796. 


124 John Graff, 


1804. 


1796. 


29 John Donnaldson, 


1804. 


1796. 


115 Andrew Pettit, 


1804. 


1796. 


122 Jacob Cox, 


1804. 


1796. 


126 Thomas W. Hiltzheimer, 


1804. 


1798. 


169 Jonathan Smith, Jr., 


1804. 


1798. 


173 John Miller, Jr., 


1804. 


1798. 


196 William Young, 


1804. 


1798. 


120 Robert S. Bickley, 


1805. 



173 



148 John Melbeck, 

200 Philip Nicklin, 
210 Jonathan Jones, 

179 George Fox, 

221 Nathan"- Chapman, M. D., 

201 Robert E. Griffith, 

192 Jasper Moylan, 

142 William Miller, Jr., 

216 William John Baker, 
100 Benjamin Morgan, 
119 Pearson Hunt, 

134 John Vaughan, 

242 George Gillasspy, M. D., 

189 John Leamy, 

194 Thomas Meredith, 

180 James Gibson, 
170 Matthew Pearce, 
205 George Dobson, 
106 Francis West, 
132 William Guier, 
246 John Dunlap, Jr., 
252 Philip H. Nicklin, 
258 Magnus M. Murray, 

193 Thomas Cadwalader, 
198 Robert Wharton, 

217 Curtis Clay, Jr., 

218 William G. Latimer, 
215 Andrew Hamilton, 
230 Edward Davies, 

271 William McIvLurtrie, 

269 David Barnum, 

289 Richard B. Jones, 

281 William M.Read, 

245 Joseph North, 

256 James Tatham, 

261 Wm. p. C. Barton, M. D. 

263 John Morin Scott, 

27s George B. MiLLiGAN, 

276 G. Henry Manigault, 



1805. 


293 


William T. Smith, 


1814. 


1805. 


307 


Aaron B. Tucker, M. D., 


181 4. 


1806. 


233 


John Zane, Jr., 


1814. 


1806. 


239 


John Shinn, Jr., 


1814. 


1806. 


* 


John Smith, U. S. Marshal, 


1814. 


1806. 


267 


Lawrence Sink, 


1815. 


IS06. 


141 


Henry Wikoff, 


1815. 


1807. 


247 


Robert M. Lewis, 


1815. 


1807. 


282 


George Hugg, 


1815. 


1808. 


324 


George McCallmont, 


1815. 


1808. 


26s 


Francis Gurney Smith, 


1815. 


1808. 


153 


Henry Nixon, 


1815. 


1808. 


167 


George Willing, 


1815. 


1808. 


226 


John Warner, 


1815. 


1808. 


314 


James M. Bolton, 


1816. 


1809. 


220 


James Crawford, Jr., 


1817. 


1809. 


234 


James L. Cuthburt, 


1817. 


1809. 


131 


Charles Ross, 


1817. 


I8I0. 


* 


James Wilkinson, 




I8I0. 




Brig. Gen. U. S. A., 


1818. 


I8I0. 


* 


Clement C. Biddle, 




I8I0. 




Col. U. S. A., 


1818 


I8I0. 


* 


James Biddle, 




I8I0. 




Capt. U. S. N., 


1818 


I8I0. 


* 


Charles W. Morgan, 




I8I0. 




Lieut. U. S. N., 


1818 


I8I0. 


259 


Job Bacon, 


1818 


18II. 


300 


Samuel H. Jacobs, 


1819 


I8II. 


329 


Hugh P. Lloyd, 


1819 


1812. 


333 


John Howard Hill, M. D. 


1820 


I8I2. 


266 


Anthony Stocker, 


1821 


I8I2. 


* 


Charles Stewart, 




I8I3. 




Com. U. S. N., 


1821 


I8I3. 


* 


J. Madison Gamble, 




I8I3. 




Major, U. S. M., 


1821 


I8I3. 


33^ 


Peter Able, 


1821. 


I8I3. 


336 


Elias Deal, 


1823. 


I8I3. 


264 


John Y. Bryant, 


1824 


I8I3. 


321 


Thomas Say, 


1824. 



174 



297 Thomas Taylor, 

306 Matthew Matthews, 

313 Edward M. Donnaldson, 

291 William S. Simmons, 

353 CHAliLES MaCALESTER, Jr. , 

228 John R. C. Smith, 

339 Samuel N. Gray, 

344 Richard P. Lardner, 

365 David C. Skerrett, M. D., 

303 Lynford Lardner, 

272 George Guier, 

400 Francis G. McCauley, 

406 Daniel S. McCauley, 

385 Thomas S. Richards, 

355 Edward Yorke, 

391 William J. Leiper, 

410 Samuel M. Leiper, 

3S3 William M. Camac, 

390 John Lardner, Jr., 

432 Robert C. Hemphill, 

446 Thomas F. Betton, M. D., 

301 William H. Hart, 

361 Peter L. Laguerenne, 

515 Elisha J. Lewis, M. D., 

444 William Jackson, 

416 John Butler, 

503 B. Fr_anklin Harley, 

530 Henry M. Naglee, , 

145 Richard Willing, 

237 William Craig, 

268 Joseph Gratz, ' 

286 John McCrea, 

288 Samuel Jackson, M. D., 

298 Henry Toland, Jr., 

305 Charles P. Fox, 

308 Henry McMurtrie, 

316 John Donnaldson, Jr., 

317 Moses Thomas, 

318 Charles Norris, 



1824 


319 


Frederick V. Krug, 


1853 


1824 


327 


Wharton Lewis, 


1853 


1824 


512 


William W. Fisher, 


1853 


1825 


413 


George Cadwalader, 


1854 


1825 


* 


Robert Patterson, 




1826 




Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1854 


1826 


563 


Francis S. Lewis, 


1856 


IS27 


575 


William D. Lewis, Jr., 


1858 


1827 


546 


W. Seward Randall, 


185S 


1827 


525 


Thomas Smith, 


1861 


1829 


414 


R. Butler Price, 


1861 


1829 


659 


T. Morgan Budd, 


1861 


I83I 


618 


J. Hamilton Kuhn, 


1861 


1832 


679 


Charles E. Richards, 


1 86 1 


1832 


685 


Joseph P. Brinton, 


1S61 


1832 


692 


John Borthwick, 


1861 


^833 


700 


Joseph R. Paxton, 


1861 


1839 


634 Jos. Penrose Ash, 


1861. 


1839 


640 


David B. Birney, 


1862 


1839 


651 


John Devereux, Jr., 


1862 


1S42 


655 


Edwin L. Tevis, 


1862 


1842 


656 


G. Irvine Whitehead, 


1862 


1846 


686 


J. Henry Haseltine, 


1862 


1847- 


710 


Charles L. Leiper, 


1S62 


IS47 


561 


William Camac, 


1862. 


1847 


547 


Henry J. Biddle, 


1S62. 


1848 


643 


William H. Potter, 


1S62. 


1848. 


674 


Lewis McMakin, 


1S62. 


1852. 


630 


William Blanchard, 


1S62. 


1853- 


482 


Thomas C. James, 


1863. 


1853- 


703 


Horace Y. Evans, M. D., 


1863. 


1853- 


* 


Charles F. Ruff, 




1853- 




Brig. Gen. U. S. A., 


1863. 


1853- 


* 


Alfred D. Jessup, 


1863. 


1853- 


662 


Edward W. White, 


1863. 


1853- 


676 


Henry Tucker, 


1S63. 


1853- 


740 


William E. Rogers, 


1863. 


1853- 


641 


John B. Fassitt, 


1863. 


1853- 


754 


Sidney H. Browne, 


1S64. 



175 



* 


Eli K. Price, 


1864. 


599 


John Savage, 


1865. 


568 


William Sergeant, 


1865. 


* 


U. S. Grant, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1S65. 


* 


W. T. Sherman, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1865. 


* 


Geo. G. Meade, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1865. 


* 


P. H. Sheridan, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1865. 


* 


G. H. Thomas, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1865. 


* 


A. T. A. Torbert, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1865. 


* 


S. W. Crawford, 






Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 


1865. 


* 


D. G. Farragut, 






Admiral U. S. N., 


1865. 


* 


David Porter, 






Rear Admiral U. S. N., 


1865. 


541 


Wilson Eyre, 


1866. 


488 


Washington Keith, 


1866. 


6oo 


F. Markoe Bache, 


1866. 


731 


Charles B. Coxe, 


1866. 


544 


Paul B. Goddard, M. D. 


1866. 


500 


Charles Wells, 


1866. 


579 


Edward C. Wharton, 


1866 


627 


Wm. H. Taggart, M. D., 


1867 


553 


Robert Thompson, Jr., 


1867 


736 


William A. Borthwick, 


1867. 



638 Joseph F. Tobias, 1867. 
645 Harvey B. Goddard, 1867. 
552 Alexander Biddle, 1868. 
545 William H. Stewart, 1868. 
704 Nalbro' Frazier, Jr., 1869. 

620 M. Edward Rogers, 1869. 
613 Fairman Rogers, 1869. 
574 Samuel Bell, Jr., 1869. 
642 A. Hamilton Smith, 1869. 

714 Emlen N. Carpenter, 1869. 

715 William P. Brinton, 1869. 

621 Edwin L. Reakirt, 1S70. 
782 Frederick. W. Fotterall, 1870. 

639 Harrison T. DeSilver, 1870. 
711 Rudolph Ellis, 1870. 
612 Chas. F. Taggart, (dec'd) 1874- 
617 Robert Morris, Jr., " 1874. 
646 John W. Grigg, " 1874, 

660 Charles M. Willing, " 1874. 

661 Benjamin P. Sloan, 1874- 

664 Albert V. Sloan, 1874. 

665 Gabriel Middleton, 1874. 
667 Horace P. Mitchell, 1874. 
670 Robert P. Wilson, 1874. 
673 Andrew J. Pemberton, 1874. 
675 Frank D. Wetherill, 1874. 

687 CALVIND.MEHAFFEY,(dec'd) 1874. 

698 Robert W. Bickley, 1874. 

707 Charles E. Cadwalader, 1874. 
836 Ralph M.TowNSEND,M.D., 1874. 



Active Roll. 


No. 


Members. 


Associated. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. ' 


■ 


ABRAHAM MAKKOE, 


Ntv. 17, 1774. 




First Captain of the Troop. Honorary April, 1776, 
DiedAug, 28, 1806. • • ■ : 




ANDREW ALLEN. 




--\pril, 1776. 


Member of Provincial Council Nov. 4, 1769 to Dec. 
1775. Attorney-General Nov. 1769. Committee of 
Safety June 30, 1775 to July, 1776. Died in London, 
Marcll 7, 1825. 


3 


SAMUEL MORRIS, 




April II, 1786. 


Second Captain of the Troop. Honorary Ma.v 11 
1786., DiedJuly?, i8i2. 


4 


JAMES MEASE. 




Nov. 1775. 


Com. of Correspondence June 18, 1774, Com. of 
Safety June 30; 1775. City Com. of Inspection and 
Observation Aug. 16, 1775. Pay-masterandTreasurer 


















Continental Army, Nov. 10,1775. Appointed by Gen. 










Washington Clothier-General U. S. Army, Jan. 1777. 










Honorary' April, 1776. Died 1826. 


5 


THOMAS LEIPER, 






City Council 1801, President of Council 1802—1805, 
1S08— 1810. Honorary Oct. 10 1794. Died July 6, 


6 


WILLL4M HALL, 


" 


June 30, 1803. 


Member of Penn'a Assembly 1798— 1800, Honorary 
July 29, 1803. Died Dec. 10, 1831. 


7 


SAMUEL PENROSE, 






Com. of Correspondence Nov. 14, 1774. Penn'a 
Assembly 1780. Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 
1796. 

Com. of Safety Oct. 20, 1775. Appointed by Presi- 










8 


SAMUEL HOWELL, JR., 














dent Washington Commissioner of U. S. Bank Mar. 










19, 1791. Honoraryjune 19, 179S. Died Nov. 6, 1806. 


9 


JAMES HUNTER, 

JAMES BUDDEN. 
JOHN DUNLAP, 






Pay-master 4th Penn'a Battl'n, 1777. Honorary 
Sept. 10, 1777. Died 1796. 

Honorary May i, 1787. Died January 7, 1788. 

Fifth Captain of the Troop. Honorary Tuly 20 
1803. Died Nov. 21,- 1812. ' J 1 V, 


12 


JOHN MEASE, 




Oct. 4, 1796. 


Com. of Safety June 30, 1775, Admiralty Surveyor 
Port of Philadelphia 1796— 1825. Honorary Octf 4, 
1796. Died Nov. 21, 1825. 










13 


ROBERT HARE, 






Member of Constitutional Convention 17S9. Penn'a 
Assembly 1791— 1792. Speaker of Senate of the 
State of Penn'a 1795. Honorary April, 1776. Died 


15 


WILLIAM POLLARD, 
HENRY HILL, 




Oct. 4, 1796. 


Member of Navy Board of Penn'a 1777. Honorary 
Oct. 4, 1796. Died 1801. 

Delegate to Provincial Conference June 18, 1776 
Member of Convention to form State Consti'tutioii 


















July, 1776. Col. 4th Penn'a Reg't Nov. 14,1776 










Pcnn a Assembly 1779—1783- Honorary April, ,776. 










DiedAug. 1797, I- . // 


16 


JOHN BOYLE, 






Honorary Feb. i, 1777. Died 1798. 


17 


WILLIAM TOD, 






Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 


18 


JOHN MITCHELL, 






Muster-master Penn'a Navy Mar. 6 1776 Captain 
'.' Ranger "galley, 1777. Commissary oi Navy and 


















Artillery, Feb. 10, 1777. U. S. Consul St. Jago de 










Cuba. Admiralty Surveyor Port of Philadelphia 
Honorary, April, 1776. Died 










'9 


GEORGE CAMPBELL, 






Council of Safety, Sept. 14, 1776. Penn'a Assem- 
bly 1780-1781. Register of Wills Philad'a „8,_ 










1 1 I1800. Honorary Oct. 4, 1796. Died 1810. '"' 



178 


No. 


Members. 


Associated. 




Remarks. 


=o 


SAMUEL CALDWELL, 


Nov. 17, 1774. 




Paymaster and Treasurer Continental Army, Nov. 
10, 1775. Clerk U. S. Admiralty Court 1790—1799. 
Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died Nov. 26, 1798. 












ANDREW CALDWELL, 






City Com. of Inspection and Observation Aug. 16, 

1775. Councilor SafetySept. 14,1776. Commodore 
"cfall the armed vessels in the Delaware," Jan. 13, 

1776. In command of Provincial fleet in fight with 
frigates Roebuck and Liverpool, May 6, 1776. Coun- 
cil of Safety Jan. 24, 1777. Penn'a Navy Board Feb. 


















13. '777- Warden Port of Philadelphia, 1778—1782. 










Honorary April, 1776. Died 


22 


LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH, 






Honorary June 19, 1798. Died Mar. 24, 1824. 


= 3 


BLAIR McCLENACHAN, 






Penn'a Assembly 1790—1795. U. S. Congress 
1797—1799- Commiss'r of U. S. Loans. Honorary 
May 4, 1790. Died iSis. 


=4 
=7 


GEORGE GRAFF, 

BENJAMIN RANDOLPH, 
THOMAS PETERS, 
GEORGE FULLERTON, 






Commiss'r for purchase of supplies for Continental 
army, 1775. Honorary Feb. i, 1777. Died 

Honorary April, 1777. Died 

Honorary June 19, 1798. Died Dec. 24, 1821. 

Killed in service Aug. 5, 1776. Honorary Aug. 5, 
1776. 


2S 


WILLIAM WEST, JR., 


Elected. 




Capt. 3d Pa. Reg't 1776. Maj. 4th Pa. Reg*! 
Nov. I, 1776. Deputy to James Mease, Clothier- 
General, U. S. A. Honorarj' April, 1776. Died 

Register Gen'I and Controller State of Penn'a, 


29 


JOHN DONNALDSON, 


Oct. 1775- 










April 1789. Honorary 1804. Died Dec. 29, 1831. 


30 

3- 

33 


JOHN LARDNER, 

ALEXANDER NESBITT, 
JAMES CALDWELL, 
THOMAS LEAMING, JUN'R., 






Penn'a Assembly, 1791— 1792. Honorary Oct. 24, 
1786. Died Feb. 12, 1825. 

Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died Sept. 1791. 

Died, Sept. 6. 1783. 

Member Convention that declared the Indepen- 
dence of the State of New Jersey, July 2, 1776. 
Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died Oct. 29, 1797. 


34 


JONATHAN PENROSE, 






Justiceof the Peace, Moyamensing, Passyunk and 
Soulhwark, 17S4. Honorary Sept. 10, 1787, Died 


35 


GODFREY TWELLS, 






Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died Jan. 19, 1802. 


36 


ADAM ZANTZINGER, 


Mar. 16, 1776. 




Honorary Sept. 10, J787. Died 


37 


FRANCIS NICHOLS, 






Lt. Col. U S. A., 1775—1779- Honorary June 19, 
1798. Died 1812. 


38 


JOHN MAXWELL NESBITT, 


" " 




Com. to answer Boston Circular, May 20, 1774. 
Com. of Correspondence June 18, 1774. Paymaster 
Pa. Navy, Sept. 14, 1775. Treasurer State Batd'n 


« 








July 27, 1776. Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


39 


PATRICK MOORE, 


" 




Treasurer of Board of War of Penn'a Mar. 14, 
1777. Alderman 1794. Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 


40 


JOSEPH COWPERTHWAITE 






Com. of Correspondence Nov. 14,1774. Captain 
"Quaker Blues," 1775. Justice of the Peace Nov. 
lo, 1778. Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 


41 


WILLIAM TURNBULL, 


Mar, 1777. 




Commissioner purchase of Clothing, 1779— 1781. 
Honorary May 6, 1792. Died July, 1822. 


42 


GEORGE HENRY, 






Lieut, of City of Philad'a, 1777. Commissary of 
Military and Naval Stores, Dec. 22, 1778. Honorary 
Sept.' 10, 1787. Died 


43 

44 

45 


JAMES CRAWFORD, 
DAVID LENOX, 

JOHN MONTGOMERY, 


„ .. 




Maj. I2th Pa. Reg't, Nov. i, 1776. Honorary 
Oct. 4, 1796. Died Sept. 17, 1810. 

Capt. 3d Pa. Battl'n Continental troops. Marshall 
of U. S. Admiralty Court, 1793 — 1795. Honorary 
Oct. 24, 1796. Died April 10, i8z8. 

Council of Safety Oct 1775. City Council, 1792 — 
1794. Honorary May 6, 1792. Died Mar. 16, 1794. 


4fi 


THOMAS C. MORRIS, 


" 




Honorary Feb. 22, 1783. Died 


47 


THOMAS DUNCAN, 


" 




Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died 


48 
49 


JOSEPH WILSON, 
DAVID H. CONYNGHAM, 






First Lieut, of Armed Boat "Congress," Mar. 6. 
1776. Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died 
Honorary June 19, 1798. Died Mar. 5, 1831. 


50 
51 


THOMAS IRVIN, 
ROBERT ROBERTS, 






Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 
Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died June, 1791. 


52 


JONATHAN MIFFLIN, 






Honorary May 4, 1790. Died 


53 


ISAAC COX, 






Paymaster Penn'a troops in Contin'l service, 1776. 
Honorary May 4, 1790. Died 


54 


WILLIAM ALRICKS, 




, 


Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died 



179 



No. 


Members. 


Elected. 




Remarks 


55 


WILLIAM LAWRENCE, 


March 1777. 




Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died 


56 


SAMUEL GRIFFIN, 






Honorary June 19th, 1798. Died 


57 


JOSEPH PROWELI., 






Honorary- Sept. 10, 1787. Died April 3, 1805. 


53 


SAMUEL INGLIS, 






Honorary' Feb. 22, 1782. Died Sept. 4, 1783. 


59 


ANDREW BUNNER, 






Honorary Sept. lo, 1787. Died Dec. 19, 1791. 


60 


JOHN LYTTLE, 






Honorary May 11, 1786. Died 


61 


BENJAMIN DAVIS, JR, 


October 1773. 




Lieut. Flying Camp, 1776. Honorary Sept. 10, 
17S7. Died iSio. 


62 


JOSEPH C. FISHER, 






Honorary Sept, 10, 1787. Died 


63 


WILLIAM NICHOLS, 


May 17, 1779. 




Maj. Continental Army, 1776. Clerk of Orphans' 
Court 17S6— 1790. Marshall of Admiralty Court, 
1798. Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 1804. 


64 


MATTHEW IRWIN, 






Captain Penn'a Troops, July 8, 1776. Appointed 
by Gen. Washington Capt. Independent Company, 
May 1777. Recorder ot Deeds, 178s. Master of 
Rolls for the State of Penn'a 1793. Honorary' Oct. 
4,1796. Died 


65 


GEORGE HUGHES, 






Honorary May 4, 1790. Died 


66 


JAMES CRAIG, JR., 






Honorary May 4, 1790. Died Sept, 29, 1800. 


67 
68 


JONATHAN POTTS, 
THOMAS BOND, JR., 






Surgeon of the Troop. Appointed by Congress 
Surgeon Canada Depm't June 6, 1776, and Dep. 
Director-General of Hospitals 1778. Honorary May 
II, 1786. Died in Reading, Pa., Oct. 1791. 

Ass't Surgeon of the Troop. Purveyor of Hospital 
of the U. S. 1781. Honorary May 11, 1786. Died 


69 


JOHN B.A.RCLAY, 


July 4, I779. 




Mayor of Philadelphia 1791. Senate of-Penn'a 
1810 — 1814. Honorary May 4, 1790. Died Aug. 8, 
1816. 


/o 
71 

72 


DAVID DUNCAN, 
JOHN PATTON, 

JOHN REDMAN, 






Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 

City Com. of Inspection and Observation Aug. 16, 
1775. Maj. ist Provincial rifle battalion, April 1776. 
Maj. 9th Pa Reg't Nov. 11, 1776. Honorary Sept. 
10, 1787. Died Oct. 25, 1812. 

Honorary Sept. 1787. Died Mar. ig, 1808. 


73 


JOHN MURRAY, 


Oct. 21, 1779. 




Lt.-Col. 2d Va. Reg't 1778. Honorary May 11, 
1786. Died 


74 


JACOB MORGAN, 


Nov. 1779- 




City Com. of Inspection and Observation Aug. 16. 
1775. Supreme E.xec, Council of Pennsylvania May 
1777. Penn'a Assembly, 1794— 1795. Honorary 
May 10, 1793. Died Sept. 18, 1S02. 


75 


MICHAEL M. O'BRIEN, 


" " 




U. S. Consul at Algiers. Honorary Sept. 12, 1789. 
Died in France 1804. 


76 


JACOB MORRIS, 






Honorary May 4, 1790. Died 


77 


CADWALADER MORRIS. 


May 173. 




Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


78 


ROBERT McCLENACHAN, 






Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


79 


ROBERT SMITH, 


May 17ST. 




Capt. Continental Army 1776. Honorary July 29, 
1803. Died 1838. 


80 


JOSEPH POWELL, 






Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


81 


DANIEL BENEZET, 


" " 




Lieut, ist Co. of Artillery 1789. Honorary Sept. 
10, 1787. Died April 25, 1797. 


82 


GEORGE HAINES, 


Sept 1 781. 




Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


83 


WILLIAM CONSTABLE, 


" 




Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died in New York 


84 


ENOS KELSO, 


.i 




Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died 


85 


WILLIAM CR.\IG, 






Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died 


86 


CHARLES LOGAN, 






Honorary Feb. 22, 1782. Died in Virginia 


87 


SAMUEL MILES, 


Mar. 1783. 




Third Captain of Troop. Honorary Nov. 27, 1791. 
Died Dec. 29, 1805. 


88 


FRANCIS JOHNSTON, 






Com. of Safety June 30. 1775. Lt.-Col. of Penn'a 
Battalion Jan. 1776. Lt.-Col. 5th Pa. Reg't Nov. 1, 
1776. Col. 2nd Pa. Reg't Sept. 1778. Honorary 
June 19, 1798. Died Feb. 22, 1815. 


89 


JAMES GIBBON, 


Mar. 17S4. 




Lieut. 6th Pa. Reg't 1776. Brvt. Capt. 1770. 
Maj. U. S. A. May 1781. Led Forlone Hope at sur- 
prise of Stony Point, New York, 1779. Honorary 
Sept. 10, 17S7. Died 


9" 


WILLIAM LARDNER, 


April 19, 17S6. 




Honorary Oct 4, 1796. Died Nov. 1827. 


91 


WILLIAM JACKSON, 






Com. of Correspondence, Nov. 14, 1774. City 
Com. of Inspection and Obser\'atian Aug. 16, 177^. 
Maj. U. S. A. 1776 -1783. Private Sec'y to Gen'I 
Washington 1790. Surveyor of Customs 1794 — 1804. 
Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died Dec. 17, 1822. 









180 


- 


No. 


Members. 


Elected. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. 


9' 


JOHN CALDWELL, 


April 19, 


1786. 




Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 


93 


JOSEPH B. McKEAN, 








Attorney-General of Penn'a 1800 — 1809. Judge of 
Distiict Court 1817 — 1826. Honorary Nov. 19, 1803. 












94 


CHRISTIAN WIRTZ, 








Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


95 


THOMAS POTTS, 






May 4, 1790. 


Died 


96 


WILLIAM BROWN, 








Commander of the Putnam Battery Penn'a Navy 










1777. Honorary Sept. 10, 1787. Died 


97 


ANTHONY BENEZET, 








Honorary Oct. 4, 1796. Died 


98 


CHRISTIAN FEBIGER, 


April 24, 


1786. 




Fourth Captain of Troop. Honorary April 5, 1794. 
Died Sept. 20, 1796. 


99 


JOHN WEST, 
BENJAMIN MORGAN, 








Honorary July 3, 1798. Died 
Honorary 1808. Died 


lOI 


GEORGE HABACKER, 






1788. 


Died 


102 


WILLIAM VANPHUL, 
ROBERT HILTZHEIMER, 


May 4, 


786. 




Honorary Oct. 4, 1796. Died 
Expelled 1797. 


103 








104 


GEORGE WESCOTT, 








Died Aug. 20, 1804, 


105 


WILLIAM CALDWELL, 






Sept. 10, 1787. 


Died 


106 


FRANCIS WEST, 








City Councils 1795 — 1796. Honorary Feb. 20, 1810. 
Died June 29, 1843. 


107 


DAVID CLARKSON, 


, 




Sept. 10, 1787 


Died 


108 


THOMAS PROCTOR, 


May II, I 


786. 




Capt. of First American Artillery Nov, 3, 1775: 
Col. 1778—1783. SheriiTof Philadelphia 1783—1785'. 
Brig-Gen'l 1793. Maj-Gen'l 1796, 1800— 1802. Hon- 






















orary Aug. 1794. Died Mar. 16, 1807. 


109 


WILLIAM COXE, 






Sept. 10, 1787. 


Died 




WILLIAM MILLER, SR., 






Sept. 10, 1787. 

.788. 

Sept. 10, 1787. 


Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 


III 


JOHN ANTHONY, 






Died 


112 


WILLIAM COLLIDAY, 


•• 




Died 


113 


JAMES COLLINS, 






Died 




JOHN CARSON, 








Surgeon of Troop. Honorary July 4, 1788. Died 
Oct. 26, 1794. 


115 


ANDREW PETTIT, 


Sept. 10, 


787. 




Honorary 1804. Died 


116 


THOMAS MOORE, 


Sept. 24, 


.787. 




Honorary May 10, 1793. Died 


"7 


JOHN MINNICK, 






1788. 


Died 


jiS 


ROBERT HOPKINS, 








Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 


119 


PEARSON HUNT, 




< 


,B02. 


Honorary 1808. Died 




ROBERT S. BICKLEY, 




79". 




-Honorary 1805. Died 


121 


JONATHAN ROBESON. 




792. 




Commissioned by President Adams, Lieut. Vol. 










Light Dragoons Provisional Army of the U. S. July 












17,1798. Honorary June 19, 1798. DiedSept. 5, i799_ 


122 


JACOB COX, 


April 30, 


"794- 




Honorary 1804. Died 


123 


ROBERT RAINEY, 








Died 1801. 


124 

I2S 


JOHN GRAFF, 
ROBERT McKEAN, 






1800. 


Honorary May 7, 1804, Died 

Died 


126 


THOMAS W. HILTZHEIMER. 








Honorary 1804. Died 


127 


ANDREW KENNEDY, 






1800. 


Died 


128 


JOSEPH MARSH, 


May 6, i 


794. 




Disinhsed for disobedience of orders on the West- 








ern Campaign Oct. 9, 1794. 


129 


DAVID C. CLAYPOOLE, 


May 12, I 


794. 




Honorary 1803. Died 1849. 


130 


SAMUEL WHEELER, 
CHARLES ROSS, 








Honorary June 19, 1798. Died May 10, 1820. 
Seventh Captain of the Troop. Honorary Oct. 8, 
1817. Died Oct. 8, 1817. 


132 


WILLIAM GUIER, 


May rg, i 


794. 




Honorary Feb, 29, 1782, Died 


"33 


GEORGE TAYLOR, 


May 20, I 


794- 




Honorary July 3, 1798. Died 


"34 


JOHN VAUGHAN, 


•■^ug. 13, 


794- 




Lieut. Flying Camp 1776. Honorary June 13, 1808, 


'35 


JAMES S. EWING, 


Sept. 10, 


794- 


1800. 


Surgeon of Troop. Honorary July 29, 1803. Died 


136 


DANIEL WILLIAMS, 








Died 


■37 


GEORGE McCALL, 








Died April 17, 1799. 


138 


ROBERT ANDREWS, 








Honorary 1803. Died 


"39 


WILLIAM FORREST, 








Died July 15, 1798. 


140 


MICHAEL KEPPELE, 






Feb. 20, 1810. 


City Council 1796 — 1800. Penn'a Assembly 1797 
—1799. Mayor of Philadelphia i8ii. Died 1823. 












141 


HENRY WIKOFF, 








Resigned May 14, 1810. Re-elected Sept. 12, 1814. 
Honorary May 5, 1815. Died 


142 


WILLIAM MILLER, JR., 


Oct. 12, I 


794. 


Oct. 12, 1807. 


Commissioner of U. S. Revenue 1798. Honorary 
Oct. 14, 1807. Died 



i8i 



JONATHAN WILLIAMS, 



ROBERT C. LATIMER, 
RICHARD WILLING, 
WILLIAM WILCOCKS, 
WILLIAM S. BUDDEN, 
JOHN MELBECK, 

WILLIAM W. BURROWS, 

ABRAHAM BICKLEY, 
BENJAMIN RINGOLD, 
MEREDITH CLYMER, 

HENRY NIXON, 

DANIELS. DELANY, 
ROBERT LEWIS, 
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, 
JOSEPH SIMMONS, 
BENJAMIN F. WEST, 
ROBERT ERWIN, 
THOMAS W. FRANCIS, 

PETER BLIGHT, 
LEVINUS CLARKSON, 
JOHN FRAZIER, 
JAMES HAMILTON, 

AMUEL HAZLEHURST, 
SPAFFORD DREURY, 
GEORGE WILLING, 

ARCHIBALD McCALL, JR., 
JONATH.\N SMITH, JR., 
M.\TTHEW PEARCE, 
JOHN SIMSON, 
EDWARD SHOEMAKER, 
JOHN MILLER, JR., 
\BR.AHAM VAN BEUREN, 
ROBERT RITCHIE, 

WILLI.A.M S. WILLING, 
EDWARD TILGHM.A.N, JR., 
OWEN FOULKE, JR., 
GEORGE FOX, 
JAMES GIBSON, 
ISRAEL W. MORRIS, 
THOMAS MIFFLIN, JR., 
SAMUEL MILES, JR., 
ENOCH WHEELER, 
WILLIAM BROWNE, 
JOSEPH REED, 

TENCH FRANCIS, JR., 
JOHN C. BROWNE, 
JOHN LEAMY, 
JAMES HUNTER, JR., 
RICHARD RUSH, 



May 14, 1810. 
1803. 
1796. 



Nov. 
Majll 



1796. 
1796. 



192 JASPER MOYLAN, 



Oct. 13, : 
Oct. 2, 1 
Feb. 20, : 



July 5, 1810, 
Feb. 20, 



June 29, 



Dec. 16, 1S09. 
Feb. 20, 1810. 



May 14, 1810. 
Oct. 10, 1803. 

Sept. 6, 1809. 

Jan. 31, 1810. 
July 16, 1798. 

Feb. 2o 1810. 
July 16, 1798. 

Aug. 4, 181 5. 



May 7, 1810. 
May 7, 1810. 



Judge of Court of Common Pleas 1776. GenT and 
Chief of Engineers U.S.A. The first Superintendent 
of West Point Military Academy. Honorary June 
I, 1798. Died May 18, 1815. 

Died Feb. i3, 1805. 
Honorary Dec. 6, 1852. Died 

Died July 2, 1816. 
Died 
Rtsigned 1798. Capt. 6th Troop Philad'a City 
av. 1799 — 1802. .ff^-/«j/a/^^ April 24, 1802. Hon- 
ary May 24, 1805. Died 

Major Corad't U. S. Marine Corps July 12, 1798. 
Lt-Col. Comd't 1800— 1804. Honorary June 19, 1798. 
Honorary June 19, 1798. Died 

Died 1858. 
Died at Parkinson's Ferr>-, Monongahela river 
hile on the " Western Expedition," Nov. 18, 1794- 
Honorary Nov. 18, 1794. 

Resigned liUy 14, 1810. Re-elected Stft. 10, 1814. 
Honorary Sept. 7, 1815. Died Aug. 18, 1840. 
Honorary Oct. 13, 1803. Died 

Died 

Died Aug. 1845. 
Died 
Died at New Orleans, La., Sept. 1804. 

Died 
Capt. 2nd Troop Philad'a City Cavalry tSog. Hon- 
orary 1803. Died June i, 1815. 

Died 18J3. 



Died 1813. 

Died June 28, 

Died 181 7. 
Died at Mount Holly, N. J., July 11, 1849. 

Died 

799. Re-elected Oct. i 

815. Died Dec. 22, 1827. 

Died April 13, 



r8ol. 



Resigned Jan. 
Honorary Sept. 7. 



Honorary 1804. Died 
Honorary Dec. 16, 1809. 



Died 



Honorary 1804. Died May 11, 1836. 
Died 

Member Penn'a Navy Board Mar. 13, 1777. 1 
Sept. 25, 1817. 

Died Aug. 9, 182 
Died Jan. 1,1815 
Died 

Honorary Sept. 17, i8c6. Died Sept. 1828. 

Honorary Sept. 6, 1809. Died Aug. 25, 1853. 

Honorary 1803. Died Aug. 17, r87o. 

Died -April 1820. 



Died Dec. 2 

Died Feb. i 

Died 1826. 

Resigned May 7, 1810. City Solicitor 18 

ie-elected Aug. 27, 1814, Died 1846. 

Died Mar. 1 



■ 805, 
.843. 



Died Aug. 8, 1 



Honorary i3o8. Died Dec. 4, 



Att'y Gen'I Penn'a 
States J814. Minister t 
Treasury 1825. MinisI 
30, 1859. 

Honoran' 1806. Die 



849. 

811. Att'y Gen'I United 
England 1817. Sec'y of the 
r to France 1847. Died July 



l82 



243 



THOMAS CADWALADER, 

THOMAS MEREDITH, 
ABEL HUMPHRYS, 
WILLIAM YOUNG, 
SAMUEL McCALL, 
ROBERT WHARTON, 

GEORGE HUMPHRYS, 
PHILIP NICKLIN, 
ROBERT E. GRIFFITH, 
JOSEPH PEMEERTON, 
WILLIAM JONES, 

JOSHUA FISHER, 
GEORGE DOBSON, 
JACOB SPERRY, 
RICHARD H. WILCOCKS, 
THOMAS R. PENROSE, 
WILLIAM NORTH, 
JONATHAN JONES, 
JOHN W.SWIFT, 
PETER McCALL, 
ROBERT R. CHAMPNEYS, 
JAMES SIMMONS, 
ANDREW HAMILTON, 
WILLLIAM JOHN BAKER, 
CURTIS CLAY, JR., 

WILLIAM G. LATIMER, 
JAMES LATIMER, 
JAMES CRAWFORD, JR.. 

NATHANIEL CHAPMAN, 

WILLIAM GRAFF, 
JAMES CALDWELL, 
JAMES MITCHEL, 
ROBERT WESCOTT, 
JOHN WARNER, 
JOSEPH W. LEWIS, 
JOHN R. C. SMITH, 

BENJAMIN HUTTON, JR., 
EDWARD D.4VIES, 
ANTHONY SLATER, 
THOMAS NIGHTINGALE, 
JOHN ZANE, JR., 
JAMES L. CUTHBERT, 
EDWARDS. BURD, 
ANDREW BYERLY, 
WILLIAM CRAIG, 
WILLIAM P. ISRAEL. 
JOHNSHINN, JR., 



JACOB W. LAWERSWYLER, 
JOHN G. BRINGHURST, 
242 GEORGE GILLASSPY, 



June 19, 1798. 



July, 
July, 



Nov. 19, 1803. 
May 28, 1804. 



June II, 1804. 
July 4, 1804. 



JAMES McMURTRIE, 
JOHN A. DEAN, 
JOSEPH NORTH, 
46 jJOHN DUNLAP, JR., 



May 14, 1810. 
Feb. 20, 1810. 



Dec. 6, 1806. 
Feb. 7, 1807. 



May 7, 1810. 
Oct. 16, 1S09. 



Feb. 20, 1810. 
May 2, 1808. 



Feb. 20, 1810. 
May 12, 1806. 
Oct. 18, 1815. 
Dec. 16. 1809. 



May I, , 
April 15, 



ut-Col. Vol. Cavalry 1812. Major-General ist 
Division Pcnn'a Militia. Honorary May 7, 1810. 
Died Oct. 26,1841. 
Honorary 1808. Died 

Died 1807. 
Honorary 1804. Died Aug. 20, 1S25. 

Died Jan. 31, 1842. 
Sixth Captain of the Troop. Honorary June 14, 
Jio. Died 1834. 

Died 
Honorary 1805. Died 1806. 
Honorary Dec. 6, 1806. Died 

Died 1808. 
Appointed Capt. " of a newtroop of City Cavalry" 
800. Honorary April 29, 1800. Died Sept. 6, 1831. 
Died 1808. 
Honorary 1809. Died 

DiedJan. 2, 1830. 
Died 

Died Dec. 25, 1812. 
Died 
Honorary May 12, 1806. Died April 8, 1821. 
Died 

Died May 7, 1809 
Died 
Died 
Honorary Aug. 1811. Died 
Honorary 1807. Died 1808. 

Quarter-Master of the Philad'a Cavalry Reg't. 
Honorary June 27, 1810. Died 

Honorary June z, 1810. Died June 2, 1810. 

Died 
Killed in Mexico Mar. 24. 1824. Honorary May 

Surgeon of the Troop. Honorary Sept. 17, 1806. 
Died July i, 1853. 

Died 1S25. 

Died 1857. 

Died 
Captain U. S. A. Died 
Re-eiectedZc^l. 4, 1814. Honorary Sept. 7, 1815. 

Died 1805. 
Eighth Captain of the Troop. Honorary April 
19, 1826. Died July 15. 1868. 
Expelled May 5, 1815. 
Honorary Sept. 3, 1811. Died May 12, 1831. 

Died 

Died 
Honorary Aug. 26, 1814. Died 
Honorary May 12, 1817. Died Nov. 14, 1825. 

Died Sept. 17, 1848. 

Died Nov. 4, 1827. 
Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died July 14, 1869. 

Died June 3, 1865- 
Major 156th Pa. Vol. 1811. Col. 79th Pa. Vol. 
1814. Honorary Aug. 26, 1814. Died Oct. 16, 1825. 

Died 1810. 

Died 
Surgeon of the Troop. Honorary Oct. 3, 1808. 
Died Oct, 2, 1852. 

Died Feb. 23, 1854. 

Died 1807. 
U. S. Navy 1813. Honorary 1813. Died 
Honorary Feb. 20, 1810. Died Dec. 12. 1852. 



i83 



ROBERT M. LEWIS, May i 

CHARLES L. SMITH, JR., May j8, 1807. 

SAMUEL B.RAWLE, July 4, 1807. 
JOHN HARE POWEL, 

WILLIAM W. WANDS, Oct. ig, 1807. 

PHILIP H. NICKLIN, Dec. 11, 1807. 

FRANCIS R. WHARTON, 

JOHN J. WHEELER, 

THOMAS F. LEAMING, 

JAMES TATHAM, 

JOHN W. MORRELL, 

MAGNUS M, MURRAY, 

JOB BACON, 

WILLIAM HEYL, 

WILLIAM P. C. BARTON, 

MATTHEW M'CONNELL.JR, 
JOHN MORIN SCOTT 



Jan. I. 
April 2 



264 JOHN Y. BRYANT, 

265 FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, 

ANTHONY STOCKER, 

L.\WRENCE SINK, 

JOSEPH GR,\TZ, 

DAVID BARNUM, 

JOSEPH B. SIMS, 

WILLIAM McMURTRIE, 

GEORGE GUIER, 

GEORGE HAWKINS, 

JEHU R.TUNIS, 

GEORGE B. MILLIGAN, 

G. HENRY MANIGAULT, 

JOHN B. SIMMONS, 

WILLIAM LEHMAN, 

JOHN C.SMITH, 
HENRY S. SHEAFF, 
WILLIAM M. READ, 
GEORGE HUGG, 
HENRY HARRISON, 
BENJAMIN H. KINTZING, 
ABRAHAM KINTZING, JR. 
JOHN McCREA, 
ISRAEL S. ELLIOTT, 
SAMUEL JACKSON, 
RICH.\RD B. JONES, 
WILLIAM WHELAN, 
WILLIAM S. SIM.MONS, 
SAMUEL HOLLINGSWORTH 
WILLIAM T. SMITH, 
EDWARD TWELLS. 
WM. HARRISON SMITH, 
CHARLES B. McELWEE, 
THO.M,\S TAYLOR, 
HENRY TOLAND, JR., 

WILLIAM W. FISHER, 
SAMUEL H. JACOBS, 
WILLIAM H. HART, 

CLEMENT LEE BREADY, 



Oct. 20, 1808. 
Oct. 25, 1808. 
Dec. 13, 1S08. 
Jan. 17, 18^. 
Jan. 31, 1809. 

Feb. 23, 1809. 
May 8, 1809. 
Sept. 6, 1809. 
Nov. 18, 1809. 

Feb. 20 1810. 

June 22,1810. 
June 27, 18.0. 

Oct. iS, iSio. 

April 25, 1811. 

April 29, iSii. 

May 20, iSii. 
June 25, .8.1. 
Oct. 18, 1811. 
May II, i8i2. 
July 2, .812. 
July 4, -Sis. 

.•^iig. 3, 1812 

Dec. 16, 1812. 



Died Feb. 18 
Died 181 



Honorary' May 5, 1815. 

Died in China Sept. 2, 1858. 

Inspector Gen'I with rank of Col. U. S. A.. 1814. 



Senate of Penn'a 1827- 



May II, 1812. 
Oct. 7, iSii. 
May I, 1815. 

May 5, 1817. 
Oct. 23, 1813. 
May 5, 1815. 



Feb. 20, 1810. 
May I, 1815. 
Feb. II, 1813. 

Feb. II, 1S13. 



Jan. .0, 1822. 
May I, 1815. 



May 1, 1815. 
Oct. 7, 1811. 
May I, 1815. 



Feb. 25, 1813. 



Nov. 22, 1817. 
Jan. 13, 18=3. 
Feb. 22, 1821. 



May 1,1815. 
May 7, 1822. 



Died Ju 

Died 1810. 
Honorary Feb. 20, i8ic. Died Mar. 2, 1842. 

Died Feb. 10, 1862 

Died 
Penn'a Assembly 1832—1833. Died June 23, 183; 
Honorary Feb. 22, 1813. Died Dec. 23, 1829. 
Xcs!£-tiei{ Sept. 3, 1811. Rc-clccted Sept. 6, 181. 
Honorary Feb. 
Honorary May 



Surgeon of the Troop. 
Honorary Mar. 22, i8i;j 



8. Died Sept. 6, 1855. 
Died 
Surgeon of the U. S. Navy. 
, Died 1856. 
Died 

Resigjied Msy 1.1 , 1812. Rn-f/fc/eti Ju\y. 4, 1812. 
ist Lieut. 2nd City Troop 1814. Penn'a Assembly 
1816— 1817. MayorofPhilad'a 1844— 1845. Honorary 
Mar. 22, 1813. Died 1858. 



1824. 



Honorary J; 
Honorary June ig, 181; 
Honorary June 7, 1821. 
Honorary Jan. 21, 1815 
Honorary Mar. 7, 1853 
Honorary May 18, 181 
Died in New Orleans I 
Honorary April 25, 181 
Honorary May 16, i82( 



Died Nov. 10, 1834. 
Died Feb. 12, 1873. 
Died Feb. 2, 1832. 
Died Jan. 5, 1828. 
Died 
Died 
ar.17,183.. ■ 
. Died 
Died 

Died May 5, 1868 
Died Oct. 31, i8i 
Died 



Honorary May 3, 1813. 

Major U.S.A. Honorary Sept. 30, 1813. Died 

Died April 11, 1S16. 
Penn'a Assembly 1828— 1829. Died Mar. 29, 1829. 

Died 

Died 1813. 
Died 
Died 

Died Mar. 16, 1823. 

Died 



Honorary July 13, 1812, 
Honorary May 5, i?is. 



824. 



Died 



Non-resident Ju 

Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died Feb. 13, 1865. 

Died 
Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died April 5, 1872. 
U. S. Consul Tripoli 1812. Honorary July 4, 181; 
Extcnedlw. 21. 1815. 
Honorary Oct. 15, 1825. Died 



Honorary May 2, 1814. 



Resigticd'^01. 28, 1B13. 
Honorary' June 21, 1824. 
Navy Agent at Philad'a 
Mar. 7, 1853. Died June 23, 1863. 

Died Jan. 6, 1838. 
Honorary May 3, 1819. Died 
Tenth Captain of the Troop. Honorary Sept. 



Died 




Died 




Died Dec. 


22, 1828. 


Died 




Re-elected Feb 


.22, 1817. 


Died 




a 1836— 1837. 


Honorary 



Died Jan. 26, 1823. 



i84 



LYNFORD LARDNER, 

THOMAS K. WALLACE, 

CHARLES P. FOX, 

MATTHEW MATTHEWS, 
AARON B. TUCKER, 
HENRY McMURTRIE, 
AUGUSTUS CUSHIXG, 
FRANCIS WORLEY, 
LEWIS C. VANUXEM, 
GEORGE T. STUCKERT, 
EDWARD M. DONNALDSON 
JAMES M. BOLTON, 
CHARLES PETTIT, 
JOHN DONNALDSON, JR., 
MOSES THOMAS, 

CHARLES NORRIS, 
FREDERICK V. KRUG, 
JOHN R. WARDER, 
THOMAS SAY, 
JOSHUA HARLAN, JR., 
NATHAN HALL, 
GEORGE McCALLMONT, 
JOHNINSKEEP, JR., 
HENRY WITMER, 
WHARTON LEWIS, 
JOHN ELFRETH, 
HUGH P. LLOYD, 
WILLIAM J. BROWNE, 
PETER ABEL, 
FREDERICK SECKEL, 
JOHN HOWARD HILL, 
EDMUND C. WATMOUGH, 
GUY BRYAN, JR., 
ELIAS DEAL, 

FRANCIS INGRAHAM, JR., 
THOMAS SYMMES, 
SAMUEL N. GRAY, 
PHILIP W. REIGART, 
C. P. HEATH, 
ALFRED INGRAHAM, 
WILLIAM J. DUBS, 
RICHARD P. LARDNER, 
HENRY B. REESE, 
JAMES W. MORSE, 
OWEN SHERIDAN, 
CHARLES P. SMITH, 
JOHN R. WUCHERER, 
JOHN MATTHEWS, JR., 
JOSEPH WEISMAN, 
DANIEL C. H. SIMS, 

CHAS. MACALESTER, JR., 
WILLIAM STUCKERT, 
EDWARD YORKE, 
WILLIAM H. JONES, 
FREDERICK R. FISK, 
GEORGE WEAVER, 
ISAAC CRESS, 
JUSTUS RUBICAM, 



Elected. 


Resi 


=.E.. 


REM^tKS. 


April 5, 1813. 






Ninth Captain of the Troop. Honorary May 21, 
1827. Died June 22, 1834. 

ResiffitcdOa. 30, 1818. Re-Instated }nne: 18, 1821 
Dropped'Hay. 3, 1821. 








May 10, 1813. 






Non-acii~je 1840. Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died 
Oct. 16, 1866. 

Honorary June 21, 1824. Died 


Jun==, 18.3. 






Surgeon of the Troop. Honorary Aug. 26, 1814. 


June;, 1813. 


Dec. 24 


1814. 


Honoraiy Mar. 7, 1853. Died 


May 2, 1814. 






Died January, 1820. 


Aug. 19, 1814. 


July 4, 


1817. 


Died Sept. 22, 1837. 


" " 


May I, 


1815. 


Died at sea 




Dec. 24, 


1825. 


Died April, 1869. 
Honorary June 21, 1824. Died Mar. 17, 1853. 
Honorary Feb. 5, 1816. Died 


Sept. 2, 1814. 


Feb. 22, 


1822. 


Died 


Sept. 4. 1S14. 


May 7, 


1822. 


Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died May 8, 1861. 


** " 




1S33. 


Itn'alid Nov. 17, 1S25. Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. 
Died Aug. 25, 1S65. 


" 


May 13, 


1822. 


Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died June 4, 1868. 




J"ly 4, 


1817, 


Honorary Mar. 7, 1853. Died 




Oct. 18, 


181S. 


Died 
Honorary Jan. 31, 1824. Died Oct. 10, 1834. 


Sept. 7, 1814. 






Died 1819. 
Died in China, February 1820. 


Sept. m, 1814. 






Honorary May 5, 1815. Died Jan. 4, 1851. 


Sept. 12, 1S14. 






Died in New Orleans, La., October, 1820. 






lS,13. 


Died 


Sept. 22,1814. 


April II, 


1816. 


Honorary Mar. 7, 1853 Died 
DiedinChina, Nov. 21,1822. 


Sept. 23, 1814. 






Honorary May 3, 1819. 








Zlro/Zi-rf June 13, 1823. 








Dec. 2. 1815. 






Honorary Oct 18, 1821. Died Jan. 29, 1848. 



May 13, 1816. 



May 12, 1S17. 
July 4, 1817. 
Jan. 30, 1818. 
Feb. 22, 1818. 
Feb. 23, 1818. 
May 22, 1818. 

Feb. i3, 1820. 

Feb. 25, 1820. 
May 8, 1820. 
May 30, 1820. 



April 5, 1821 
May 10, 1821. 



May 14, 182 
May .8, 182. 



Dec 


^. 


1826. 


June 


18, 


1821. 


May 


3. 


1822. 


Oct. 


4. 


1819. 
1S40. 


Oct. 
Nov. 


8, 
9. 


1826. 
1803. 


Nov. 
May 


4, 


1829. 
1825. 
1829. 


Oct. 


5. 


1825. 


June 


3. 


1823. 



Died 

Surgeon of the Troop. Honorary Nov. 
U.S. Consul Trinidad de Cuba. Died Jan. 
/nz/a/zrfNov. 17, 1825. Died 
Honorary May 23, 1823. Died Sept. 2, il 
Dropped'^ov. 17, 1825. 

Died 
Honorary Nov. 8, 1826. Died 
Non-resident 'innz^T., 1824. Died 
Dropped Nov. 3, 1821. 



Died 



Honorary Feb. 2 
Non-resident Ju 
DropJ-edM^y 2: 



Non-resident I 
Sept. 2, 1830. 
Honorary Oct. 



Died 1873. 




Died Nov. 


28, 1826 


1825. Died i 


n Florid 


Died Dec. 9, 1 


87,3. 


Died 1832. 




Died Aug. 4, 


1868. 


Died 1833. 





Dropped Vnh. 22, 1827. 



i8s 



361 PETER L. LAGUERENNE, 

362 IjAMESBURKE, 

363 PAUL JONES, 

3S4 CHARLES McEUEN, 

365 DAVID C. SKERRETT, 

366 WILLIAM NEWELL, JR., 

367 BENJAMIN W. RICHARDS, 
VIOLET PRIMROSE, 
ALEXANDER McPHERSON, 
RICHARD C. SEE, 
JAMES BENSEL, 
JOHN W. ASHMEAD, 
THOMAS KELLY, 
EDWARD PENINGTON, JR. 
ALEXANDER McALPIN, 
J, ARMAND MONGES, 

CHARLES M. STOKES, 
WILLIAM WHITNEY, 
SAMUEL M. WETHERILL, 
GEORGE P. GLENTWORTH^ 
JOHN H. SCUDDER, 
FRANCIS P. CORBIN, 

383 WILLIAM M. CAMAC, 

MATTHEW B. DENMAN, 

385 THOMAS S. RICHARDS, 
GEORGE REX, 

387 HENRY SHOEMAKER, 
THOMAS SMALLMAN, 
JOEL Z. REYNOLDS, 
JOHN LARDNER, JR., 
WILLIAM J. LEIPER, 
ALEXANDER H. DUNCAN, 
JOHN BOSQUET, 
ANTHONY BLENON, 
JOHN SAVAGE, 
DAVID E. WILSON, 
DAVID PAUL BROWN, 
CHARLES H. ROHR, 
CHARLES C. WATSON, JR., 
FRANCIS G. McCAULEY, 

WILLIAM PENINGTON, 
JAMES B.TAGGART, 
WILLIAM F. SEEGER, 
DAVID S. HASSINGER, 
THOMAS C. CASH, 

406 DANIELS. McCAULEY, 
ROBERT MORRIS, 

408 GEORGE W. WAITE, 

CHANDLER P. BRYAN, 
SAMUEL M. LEIPER, 
JOHN P. SCHOTT, 
CHARLES HARLAND, 
GEORGE CADWALADER, 



R. BUTLER PRICE, 



415 THOMAS PENN GASKILL, 

416 JOHN BUTLER, 



May - 
June" 



June 18, 182 
June 22, 182: 

July 4, 182: 



Sept. 19, 
Feb. II, 

Feb. 22, 

May 13, 



June 13, 
July 4, 

May 5, 



Sept. 2 
May ; 



April I, 
May I 
May ic 
July 2.( 



Nov. 8, 1S26. 



1832. 
Oct. i3, 1821. 
Nov. 10, 1S23. 



June 21, 1822. 
June 21, 1.824. 
Feb. 18, 1834. 
Nov. 17, 1825. 
Oct. 18,1821. 
Sept. 8, 1S23. 
Feb. 22, 1822. 
June,, ,831. 



July 4, 18=6. 
May 4, 1829. 



May 2, 1825. 
Oct. 5, 1839. 



Sept. 8, 1S23. 
May 5, 1823. 



Honorary Nov. 9, 1846. Died Jan. 24, 1059. 



Oct. 4, 


1823. 


July 4 


, 1836. 


Oct. 25, 


1823. 




1839. 


Feb. 22, 


.824. 


Dec. 2 


1826. 


May 21, 


J824. 


Feb. 12 


, 1829. 



Re-elected Dec. 13, 1831 
Surgeon of Troop. Hon 



Mayor of Phil 



Died Nov. 18, 1857. 
■ary Feb. 22, 1827. Died 



Kesi^dUny 7, 1822. Re-elect. Sept. 17, 1824. Died 
Died 

Died 

Died Jan. 16, 1868. 
A'on-resiWent June 21 , 1824. 

Non-resident June 21, 1B24. Died at Matagorda, 
Texas, Feb. 27, 1840. 

Died Mar. 20, 1850. 
Non-resident Nov. 17, 1825, 

Died 
Non-resident June -..i, 1824. Died 
Non-resident Juvifi 21, 1824. 

Honorary July 8, 1839. Died Mar. 7, 1842. 

Died 
Honorary Oct. i, 1832. Died November, 1839. 

Died 
Excelled }nn<: 13. 1823. 
DroJt/>edT>io\. 17, 1825. 
Honorary July 8, 1839. Died Mar. 3, 1865. 
Honorary Dec. 15, 1832. Died Sept. 27, i860. 
Dropped Nov. 17, 1825. 
Non-resident June 21, 1824. Died 



Dropped'iiov. 17, 1825. 



Died July 



.872. 



Dec. 31,1839. 



Died Nov. 27, 1835. 
U. S. Navy. Honorary June 26, 1829. Died in 
Paris, Dec. 10. 1857. 

Died Aug. 16, 1863. 
Non-resident 1834. Died 

Died Dec. 27, 1825. 
Invalid -Li^i. Died April 18, 1867. 

Died January, 1836. 
Honorary Nov. 5, 1831. Died 
Non-resident 1834, 
Dropped Hov. 17, 1825. 

Died Mar. 15, 1827. 
Honorary May 17, 1833. Died 

Died 
Dropped innn -ii, 1828. 

Non-active (with privileges of Honorary) Sept. 5, 
1842. Brig.-GenT U. S. A. Mar. 6, 1847. Bv't Maj. 
Gcn'l U. S. A. Aug. 23, 1848. Maj. Gen'l U. S. Vols. 
April 25, 1862. Honorary Oct. 17, 1S54. 

Resigned May 7, 1827. Re-elected May 15, 1830. 
Col. 2nd Pa. Vol. Cav. Sept. 7, 1861. Bv't Brig.- 
Gen'l Mar. 13, 1865. Honorary Sept. 7, 1861. 
Died 
Eleventh Captain of the Troop. Honorary Dec. 
23, 1847. Died Dec. 23, 1847. 



i86 


No. 


Members. 


Elected. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. 


417 


THOMAS MOORE WILLING, 


Dec. 21, 


1826. 


May 16, 


1829. 


Died 1854. 


418 


A. HAMILTON THOMSON, 


Feb. 22, 


.827. 






Died Jan. 9, 1831. 


419 


GEORGE H. THOMSON, 


• ' 




Dec. 31, 


1842. 


Non-active 1834. Died 


420 


THOMAS McEUEN, 


Mar. 21, 


1827. 


Sept. 12, 


1827. 


Died Feb. 27, 1873. 


421 


EDWARD D. WHITNEY, 


April 14, 


1827. 


May 21, 


1827. 




422 


EDWARD HARLAND, 


M.iy I, 


18=7. 


Sept. 18, 


1828. 




423 


JOSEPH M. BRYAN, 


May 25, 


1827. 


Dec. 31, 


1841. 


Non-resident May 19, 1832. Died 


424 


WILLIAM W. McMAIN, 


June 14, 


1827. 






Non-resident 1844. Died in New Orleans, La. 


425 


PETER L. YORKE, 






Dec. 31, 


1841. 


Non-resident June 21, 1831. Died April 14, 1865. 


426 


AARON CLEMENT, 


Sept. 22, 


,827. 






Non-active Nov. 6, 1843. Died 


427 


ALFRED DRAKE, 


Oct. 23, 


1827. 


April 30, 


1830. 


Surgeon of the Troop. Died Oct. 3, 1857. 


428 


SAMUEL YORKE, 


Feb. 12, 


182B. 


Dec. 3., 


1839. 


Died Sept. 25, 1861. 


429 


WILLIAM G. COLQUHOUN, 


May 24, 


1828. 


Dec. 31, 


1841. 


Non-resident 1834. Died 


430 


JOHN GRAFF, 


Ji'iy 4, 


1828. 






Died 1842. 


431 


JOSEPH J. BALL, 


N.)v. 10, 


1828. 


April 25 


1831. 




432 


ROBERT C. HEMPHILL, 










Honorary Sept. 2, 1839. 


433 


WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE, JR., 


May 4, 


1829. 






Died June 4, 1831. 


434 


ALEXANDER LARDNER, 


July 4, 


1S29. 






Non-active Dec. 2, 1839. Died Jan. 14, 1848. 


435 


SAMUEL W. BRYAN, 


May 3, 


1830. 






Died 


436 


WILLIAM F. CLEMSON, 


July 2, 


1830. 


Feb. 18, 


1833. 




437 


PIERCE BUTLER, 


July 5, 


1830. 


Dec. 31, 


i860. 


Non-active Feb. 22, 1848. Died 


438 


HENRY S.BAKER, 






Jan. I, 


1839. 


./?M;i^</Sept.i8, 1832. 7i^-f&c/.May6, 1833. Died 


439 


C. ROCKLAND THOMSON, 


Sept. 25 


1830. 


Oct. 3, 


1842. 


Non-active Dec. 2, 1839. Died 


440 


JOHNSTILLE,JR., 


Oct. 4, 


1830. 


Dec. 31, 


,843. 


Non-active Dec. 2, 1839. Died 


441 


jOHNC. Mcknight, 




'■ 






Died Sept. 26, 1834. 


442 


HORACE G. BROWNE, 


May 2, 


1831. 


June 26, 


1833- 


Died April 23, 1838. 


443 


WILLIAM LIPPINCOTT, 






Sept. 15 


1842. 


No7t-active }nnft i, 1840. 


444 


WILLIAM JACKSON, 


June II, 


1831. 






Honorary May 17, 1847. Died July 25, 1850. 


445 


THEODORE DEWEES, 






Dec. 31 


1841. 


Non-resident 1839. 


446 


THOMAS F. BETTON, 










Surgeon of the Troop. Honorary Sept. 5, 1842. 


447 


JAMES M. BOLTON, 










Non-active Dec. 11, 1843. Died Aug. 27, 1846. 


448 


WILLI.\M P. ROCKHILL, 






June I, 


1840. 


Died 


449 


WILLIAM C. BROWNE, 






Dec. 31 


1838. 




45c, 


SYLVANUS S. HAMERSLEY, 


June 13, 


1831. 


Dec. 15, 


1832. 




451 


THOM.AS PAYNE, 


July 4, 


183.. 


Dec. 31 


1835. 


Non-resident 1834. 


452 


S. MORRIS WALN, 


Sept. 6, 


1831. 


Nov. 5, 


183.. 


Died Dec. 20, 1870. 


453 


WILLIAM P. BLIGHT, 


Sept. 9, 


.831. 






Died 1845. 


454 


WILLLAM S. DILLINGHAM, 






Jan. 12, 


1833- 


Died 




CHARLES G. BANCKER, 
JOSHUA YORKE, 


Feb. 13, 
May I, 


1S32. 
1832. 






Dropped Hoi. 17, 1843. 

Non-resident 1834. Died Jan. 25, 1874. 


455 
456 


Dec. 31 


1841. 


457 


CHARLES P. MASSEY, 


May 7, 


1832. 


Dec. 31, 


1834. 




458 


ROBERT WILMER, 


Nov. 17 


.832. 


Dec. 31 


1833. 


Died in California, 1868. 


459 


JAMES H. HART, 






Dec. 31 


1852. 


Non-active Nov. 6, 1843. 


460 


JOHN B. CHAPMAN, 


Dec. 24, 


1832. 


Dec. 31, 


1841. 


Non-resident 1834. Died Feb. 28, 1845. 


461 


THEODORE THOMSON, 


April 19 


1833. 






Died Feb. 5, 1839. 


462 


GEORGE BLIGHT BROWNE, 


April 27 


1833. 


Dec. 31, 


1839. 


Major 9th Pa. Vol. Cav. Nov 21, 1861. Lt.-Col. 
Jan. 13, 1863-Feb. 12, 1863. 


463 


E. G. GLENN, 


May 6, 


1833. 


Jan. 7, 


1839. 


Died 


464 


S. A. WICKS. 


M.iy 17, 


1833- 


Dec. 16 


1833. 




465 


lOHN D.CROSBY, 


July 4, 


1833. 






Died Jan. 10, 1835. 


466 


THOMAS CLAXTON REA, 


Oct. 5, 


1833. 






Non-active Feb. 16, 1842. Died Jan. 11, 1845. 


467 


JOSEPH M. ROGERS, 


Oct. II, 


'833- 


Dec. 31 


1841. 


Non-resident 1839. 


468 


JOSEPH K. EYRE, 


Oct. 14, 


1833. 


Dec. 31 


1850. 


Non-active July 17. 1S43. 


469 


JOHN F. FR.'iZER, 


Dec. 16. 


1833. 


Dec. 31 


1843. 


Non-active 1842. Died January 1873. 


470 


THEODORE SMITH, 


" 








Died January 1836. 


471 


HENRY LARDNER, 


May 12, 


1834. 


Dec. 31 


1840. 


Non-resident 1839. Died 


472 


CHARLES J. DUVAL, 


May 21, 


1834. 


Dec. 31 


1852. 


Non-active Sept. 1842 


473 


JOSEPH W. RYERSS, 


Aug. 16, 


1834. 


June 7 


1841. 


Died Jan. 20, 1868. 


474 


HENRY WILLING, 


Aug. 17 


1834. 






Non-active June 19, 1844. Died September, 1845. 


475 


JOHN M. LISLE, 


May 4, 


1835. 


Nov. 17 


1843. 




476 


JOSHUA LIPPINCOTT, JR., 


Dec. 16 


1836. 


Dec. 31 


.853- 


Non-active Nov. 6, 1843. 



1 87 



477 SULLIVAN A. MEREDITH, 

THOMAS HALE, JR., 
EDWARD M. HOPKINS, 
WILLIAM N. BISPHAM, 
CHARLES WILLING, 
THOMAS C. JAMES, 

483 GEORGE H. BRYAN, 

484 BENJAMIN W. INGERSOLL 
48s ROBERT ADAMS, 

WILLIAM C. T WELLS, 
MILTON J. LUKENS, 
WASHINGTON KEITH, 

HUGH H. STOCKTON, 
LEWIS MICHAELS, 
WILLIAM STEVENSON, 
GEORGE C. CARSON, 
JOSEPH L. HARVEY, 
GEORGE T. LEWIS, 
HENRY LEWIS, 
I. NORRIS EMLEN, 
JAMES C. WORRELL, 
498 JACOB W. McMAIN, 
FRANCIS PETERS, 

CHARLES WELLS, 
CHARLES PENROSE, JR., 
THOMAS S. DAVIS, 
B. FRANKLIN HARLEY, 

MORRIS MEREDITH, 
JOSEPH P. DAVIS, 
G. HARRISON REA, 
EDWARD L. CAREY, 
THEOPHILUS P. HART. 
ALEXANDER BACON, 
WILLIAM C. PARKER, 
MAHLON H. HEBERTON, 
WILLIAM W. FISHER, 
GEORGE GUIER, JR., 
JOSEPH C. HARRIS, 
ELISHAJ. LEWIS, 
WALTER LIVINGSTON, 
FREDERICK W. REESE, 
HENRY RANDALL, 
JOSHUA P. HAVEN, 
WILLIAM B. TAYLOR, 
WILLIAM T. LOWBER, 

MANLIUS 0. EVANS, 
HENRY BARING POWELL, 
HARRISON SMITH, 
THOMAS SMITH, 

526 JAMES D.SMITH, 
JOHN R. PENROSE, 

528 JOSEPH H.WHITE, 
A. HENRY DENCKLA, 
HENRY M. NAGLEE, 

JAMES BARCLAY, 
532 IcLEMENT B. BARCLAY, 



Dec. 26, 1 
Dec. 28, 1 

J.in.1,1 
May 6, 1 
Sept. 13, i 



Dec. 31, i860. 
Dec. 31, 1859. 
April 6, 1840. 



May 18, 1840. 
June I, 1840. 
Nov. 2, 1840. 

Nov. 25, 1840. 

June 7, 184.. 

Oct. 4, 1841. 
Feb. :6, 1842. 

Feb. 22, 1842. 
June 6, 1842. 
Sept. 13, 1842. 



April 17, 1843. 
Mny 17, 1843. 
Sept. 13, 1843. 



Nov. 6, 1843. 
May 13, 1844. 
May 14, 1S44. 
May IS, 1S44. 

June 19, 1844. 
July 8, 1844. 



July 9, 1844. 
July II, 1844- 



Feb. 7, .842. 
Feb. 6, 1S66. 



Sept. 15, 1842 
Dec. 31, 1845 
Dec. 31,186c 
Nov. 6, 1843. 
Dec. 31, 1845, 
Nov. 22, 1859 

June 19, 1844 
Fel). 4, 1867, 
June 7, 184. 



Dec. 31, 
Sept. 5, 



Non-actmc Jan. 4, 1859. Col. loth Pa. Infy, 

April 26, 1861. Col. 56th Pa. InPy, Sept. i. 1861. 
Brig.-Gen'l Nov. 29, 1862. 

Non-resident 1841. Died Nov. 21, 1871. 

Non-resident 1841. 

Died 

Non-activciisg. Died July 23, 1S68. 

Twelfth Captain of the Troop. Honorary Jan. 1 1 , 
563. Died Jan. II, 1S63. 

Non-active Nov. 4, 1850. Died July 28, 1856. 

Non-active Feb. 22, 1848. Died in Rome, 1859. 



1847. Died 



Non-active May 
Non-active May 13, 1847 
Non-active Mar. 16, 1847. 
Died May, 1866. 
Non-active April 12, 1B47. Died December, 185 



I)roJ>J>cd }:\n. 5, 1874. 
Honorary Feb. 8, 1866. 



Nan-active 1850. Died May 16, 1874. 
Non-active 1850. 

Died 1843. 

Died Sept. 5> 1857. 
Non-active 1850. 

Died Oct. 22, 1864. 
Non-resident 1843- Died in New Orleans, La. 
Dropped June 14, 1858. Re-instated ]Mae 6, 1859- 
Died in Paris, May 19, 1S61. 
Honorary Nov. 5, 1866. 
Non-active Nov. 17, 1849. 

ist Lt and Bv't. Capt. nth U. S. Infantry, 1847. 
Honorary Oct. 25, 1848. Died Feb. 11, 1853. 
Non-active Nov. 4, 1850. 

Died 1843. 
Died Mar. i, 1845. 
Died June 16, 1845. 
Non-residentSevt. 15, 1845. Droppedtiov . 16, 1850. 
Non-active Nov. i, 1849. Died July 7, 1874. ■ 
Non-resident June 19, 1844. 

Died Feb. 10, 1843. 
Honorary Oct. 3, 1853. Died February, 1856. 
Non-resident 1849. Died in California. 
Non-active Nov. i, 1849, ""tl Sept. 4, 1862. 
Surgeon of the Troop. Honorary Feb. 22, 1847. 

Died 
DroppedVeb. 6, 1851. 
Non-active Nov. 6, 1862. 
Non-resident Jan. 6, 1850. Died in California. 



1845. 



Re-instated and Non- 



Resigned Sept. IS 
activeHoi. 2, 1874. 

Non-active 1859. 

Dropped Feb. 6, 1851. 

Non-active Sept. 30, 1852. 

Honorary April 16, 1861. 

Non-active Nov. 15, 1852. 

Non-active 1852. Died Sept. 11, 1869. 

Non-active Nov. 15, 1852. Died 

Died Sept. 24, 1865. 

Capt. N. Y. Vol. Infantry 1847. Brig.-Gen'l U. S. 
Vols. Feb. 4, 1S62. Honorary Oct. 25, 1848. 

Died in City of Mexico, August, 1847. 

Non-active Mar. 7, 1853. 



1 88 


No. 


Members. 


Elected. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. 


533 


HENRY P. BORIE, 


July II, 


1844. 






Non-active Nov. 10, 1851. 


534 


HENRY W. ANDREWS, 


July 13. 


1844. 


April I 


1867. 


Non-active 1859. 


535 


JOHN B. SHOEER, 


Sept. 13 


1844. 






Non-active 1859. Died Nov. 27, 1864. 


53S 


JOSEPH L. SCHAFFER, 










Non-active Nov. 10, 1851. Died Mar. 9, 1859. 


537 


HARRY McCALL, 


Nov. 25 


1844. 


June 23 


1845. 




538 


.MARINE T. W. CHANDLER, 


Sept. 15 


1845. 






Non-resident Jan. 6, 1851 . Died Brazil June 8, 1868. 


539 


JAMES MASON, 


Sept. 19 


1845. 






^on-resident 1848. 


540 


MAHLON D. EYRE, 




■' 


Dec. 31 


■859. 


Non-resident '^^n. 6, 1851. 


541 


WILSON EYRE, 










Honorary Feb. i, 1866. 


542 


ROBERT H. HARE, 


Oct. 9, 


1845. 


Dec. 31 


1853. 


Non-resident Jan. 6, 1851. 


543 


JOHN SERGEANT, JR., 


April 27 


1S46. 






Non-active May 10. 1853. Died July 23, 1856. 


544 


PAUL BECK GODDARD, 


Mar. 16 


1847. 






Surgeon of the Troop. Surgeon U. S. Vols. 
Honorary July 3, 1S66. Died July 3, 1S66. 


545 


WILLIA.M H. STEWART, 


Feb. 22, 


1848. 






Honorary April 6, 1868. 


546 


W. SEWARD R.4NDALL, 










Honorary Sept 14, 1858. Died Sept. 23, 1866. 


547 


HENRYJ. BIDDLE, 


April 4 


1848. 






Non-active Oct. 2, 1855. Capt. and Ass't. Adj.- 
Gen'l. Pa. Reserves. Wounded and prisoner June 
30, 1862. Died in Richmond, Va., July 20, 1862. 
Honorary July 20, 1862. 


543 


CHAS. MACALESTER, JR., 


May 19, 


1S48. 


Mar. 14 


1854. 


Died March, 1873. 


549 


WILLIAM HENRY BECK, 


Oct. 25, 


1848. 


Feb. 18, 


1850. 


Died 1859. 


550 


WILLIA.M H. LOPER, 










Dropped 'Hov. 16, 1850. 






551 


MANUEL EYRE, 






Dec. 31, 


1859- 


Non-resident Oct. 17, 1851. 


552 


ALEXANDER BIDDLE, 


Oct. 13, 


1849. 






Non-active Nov. 11, 1856. Major 121st Pa. Vol. 
Inf y, 1862. Col. Dec. 1863. Honorary Feb. 3, 1868. 


553 


ROBERT THOMPSON, JR., 










Awi-arf/i'<r Oct. 4, 1858. Lt-Col. 115th Pa. Vol. 
Inf y, April, 1862— Jan. 1863. Bv't Col. and Brig.- 
Gen'l. Honorary June 3, 1867. 


554 


SAMUEL J. RANDALL, 


Nov. 17, 


1849. 


Mar. I, 


1866. 


Member of U. S. Congress, 1863— 


555 


HORACE L. PETERSON, 


Jan. 17, 


1850- 


Nov. I, 


1S52. 


Died 


556 


JOHN C. LEIPER, 


Feb. 6, 


1850. 


Dec. 31, 


1859- 


Non-resident Oct. 16, 1855. 


557 


GEORGE PEPPER NORRIS, 










Ass't Surgeon U. S. Hospital. Died Mar. 7, 1865. 


558 


JOHN J. VANDER KEMP, 










Non-active Nov. 6, 1862. 


559 


ALFRED A. CARTER, 


Feb. 18, 


1850. 






Died June, 1850. 


560 


JOSHUA C. LAWRENCE, 


May 27, 


1850. 






Non-active Nov. 3, 1857. 


561 


WILLIAM CAMAC, 










Major and Acting Ass't Surj;. U. S. A In charge 
of Officers Hospital. Philad'a, Aug. 1862— Aug. 1864. 
Honorary Mar. 6, 1862. 


562 


T. WHARTON FISHER, 










Non-active 1859. Died May 18, 1873. 


563 


FRANCIS S. LEWIS, 










Honorary Oct. 7, 1856. Died Nov. 15, 1859. 


564 


GEORGE EARP, JR., 











E.vpelledOc\..%, i860. 


565 


C. CARROLL TEVIS, 


" 




Nov. 10 


1851. 


Lt.-Col. 3d Md. Vol. Cavalry, 1861. 


566 


BENJ. W. RICHARDS, JR., 


June 17. 


1850 


Nov. 17, 


1856. 


Capt. and A. D.C. U. S. Vols., April 1862. 
Bv't Major, Aug. 1864. Bv't Lt.-Col. Mar. 30, 1865. 


567 


GEORGE F. ARNOLD, 


June 24, 


1850. 






Died June 10, 1855. 


568 


WILLIAM SERGEANT, 


July 27, 
Sept. 26 


1850. 






Non-active Nov. 6, 1862. Capt. 12th U. S. Infy. 
Col 2ioth Pa. Vol. Infy. Mortally wounded 
in battle, April 11, 1865. Died Mar. 31, 1865. 
Honorary Mar. 31, 1865. 

Dropped Oct. 6, 1852. 


569 


JOHN O'BRIEN, 


1850. 






57° 


SAMUEL L. SHOBER, 


Oct. 15, 


1850. 






Non-active 1858. 


571 


WILLIAM M. WRIGHT, 


Feb. 6, 


.851. 


Oct. 24, 


1854. 


Died 


572 


GEORGE McHENRY, 






May 29, 


1856. 




573 


JOHN B. CAMAC, 










Non-resident Oct. 2, 1855. Non-active Nov. 6, 1862. 


574 


SAMUEL BELL, JR., 










Non-active 1858. Paymaster U. S. A., 1862. 
Bv't Lt.-Col. 1865. Cleik U. S. Court, i87<^- 
Honorary Dec. 6, 1S69 


575 


WILLIAM D. LEWIS, JR. 


Feb. 22, 


1851. 






Col. i8th Pa. Vol. Inf y, 1861. Col. iioth Pa. Vol. 
Inf y, 1862— 1863. Bv't Brig-Gen'l. 1865. Honoran' 


























June 7, 1858. Died Jan. 19, 1872. 


576 


EDWARD P. HEWLINGS, 











Dropped VSay. 4, 1853. 


577 


JAMES T. LEWIS, 


June 2, 


1851. 


Oct. 4, 


1858. 


Died July 22, 1861. 


573 


HENRY K. RICHARDS, 


Oct. 17, 


1851. 






Non-resident Oct. 3, 1854. Died Sept. 2, 1856. 


579 


EDWARD C. WHARTON, 


Feb. 9, 


1852. 






Non-active April 20, 1859. Honorary Nov. 5, 1866. 
Died May 27, 1873. 


580 


HENRY TOLAND, 










Died April 21, 1858. 



1 89 


No. 


Members. 


Elected. 


Resk 


.«EO. 


Remarks. 


581 


ALLEN ARMSTRONG, 


Sept. 30 


1852. 


Mar. 20 


.854. 


Died Sept. 25, 1854. 


582 


JAMES J. VANSYCKEL, 


Oct. 14, 


1852. 






Died Oct. 27, 1858. 


583 


WILLIAM P. BROCK, 






Dec. 31 


1856. 




584 


JOHN LOCKEN, 






Dec. 31 


1S56. 


Xon-resident Oct. 1855. 


585 


CHARLES J. ADAMS, 


" 


■' 






Died Feb. 7, 1862. 


586 


EDWARD S. SANDFORD, 


Oct. 21, 


1852. 


Oct. 22, 


1856. 




587 


CHARLES E. HOOPER, 






Mar. 7 


1854. 




588 


BUSHROD W. ADAMS, 


Oct. 28, 


1852. 


June 2 


1-856. 




589 


J. FRANCIS MAKER, 












59° 


WILLIAM READ FISHER, 


Nov. I 


1852. 






Non-active Nov. 17, 1859. 


591 
592 


BARCLAY HARDING, 
ALFRED W. ROGERS, 










Dropped Feb. 7, 1854. 

Non-acthie Nov. 6, 1862. Died April 2, 1864. 


Mar. 29, 


1853- 






593 


RICHARD G. DEVEREUX, 


April 22 


1853. 






-Non-active Nov. 3, 1864. 


594 


HENRY D. LANDIS, 


May 10 


.853. 






Dropped Feb. 7, 1854. 






595 


BINGHAM WILLING, 


May 15, 


t8s3- 






Dropped iune 14, 1858. 






596 


CHARLES E. DE HAVEN, 


June 21, 


i?.'^3. 


Nov. 22 


1853- 




597 


FRANCIS McMURTRIE, 


Nov. 8, 


1853. 


May 29 


1856. 




598 


JAMES B. SMITH, 


Nov. 17 


1853. 






Dropped KprW 6, 1865. 






599 


JOHN SAVAGE, 


Mar. 28 


1854. 






Non-active Nov. 6, 1862. Capt. 6th U. S. Cav. 
1862. Honorary Feb. 14, 1865. 


600 


F. MARKOE BACHE, 










Capt. i6th U. S. Infy. Bvt Lt.-Col. U. S. A. 
Honorary Mar. i, 1S66. Died in France Nov. 19,1867. 


601 


BERNARD HENRY, 


May 9, 


■854. 






Ass't Surgeon of Troop. Ass'tSurg. U. S. N.1842. 
Died at sea, April 16, i860. 


602 ' JOHN WAGNER, 


Oct. 3, 


.854. 






Non-actiz'e Dec. 4, 1862. 


603 WILLIAM F. ROGERS, 


Oct. 17, 


1854- 






Died in Paris, Dec. 9, 1857. 


6c4 


WILLIAM D. SMITH, 










Non-active Jan. 6, 1865. 


605 


DANIEL HOLSMAN, 


Oct. 23, 


1854. 


May 29 


1856. 




606 


ROBERT S. VANSYCKEL, 


Dec. ,9, 


1854- 






Died Sept. 19, 1855. 


607 


ROBERT H. GRATZ, 






Nov. 3 


1857. 


Died Sept. 28, 1873. 


608 


SAMUEL F. JACOBS, 


Feb. 19, 


1856. 






Resigned "Nov. 22, 1859. Re-e/ected April 19, i860. 
Non-resident Nov. 6, 1862. Died Nov. 30, 1868. 


609 


JACOB P. WILSON, 


Feb. 22, 


1856. 






Capt. sth Pa. Vol. Cav. Aug. 5, i86i. Major 
May 1, 1862— Oct. 13, 1862. Died 1864. 


610 


CHARLES M. PREVOST. 


Oct. 22, 


1856. 


April I 


1861. 


Col. ii8th Pa. Vol. InPy, 1862. Bv't Brig.-Gen'l. 
1865. Maj.-Gen'l. ist Div. N. G. of Pa. 1867— 


61 1 


SAMIL H. CARPENTER, JR.. 


Feb. 3, 


1857- 






Died Oct. 30, 1859. 


612 


CHARLES F. TAGGART, 


Nov. 10, 


1857. 






Maj. 2nd Pa. Vol. Cav. 1861. Killed in battle, 
Oct. 22, 1863. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


613 


FAIRMAN ROGERS, 


Nov. 17 


1857. 






Resigned Nov. 6, 1862. Re-elected Jan. 4. 1866. 
Thirteenth Capt.of the Troop. Honorary Nov.i, 1869. 


6j4 


THOMAS M. SIMPSON, 


Jan. 6, 


1858. 






Non-resident "iio-v . i, 1859. Died 


615 


WILLIAM A. EDWARDS, 


May 28 


1858. 






Died Aug. 10, i860. 


616 


JAMES H. HODGDON, 


" 


" 


Nov. 15 


1859- 


Vol. Capt. U. S. N. 1861. Died April 22, 1862. 


6.7 


ROBERT MORRIS, JR., 


June 14, 


1858. 






Maj. 6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers), 1861. Wounded 
and prisoner, June 9, 1863. Died in Richmond, Va., 
Aug. 13, 1863. Honorai-y Oct. 15, 1874. 


618 


JAS. HAMILTON KUHN, 










Resigned i^n. 26, 1S60. Re-elected April 18, 1861. 
2nd Lieut. 27th Pa. Vol. InPy, Oct. 1S61. 
ist Lieut. Dec. 1861. Honorary Nov. 7, 1861. 
Killed in battle, June 30, 1862. 


619 


ALEXANDER B. COXE, 






April 5, 


1866. 




620 


M. EDWARD ROGERS, 


Sept. 14 


185S. 






Honorary Jan. 4, 1869. Elected Nov. 6, 1869, 
Fourteenth Captain of the Troop. 


621 


EDWIN L. REAKIRT, 










Non-active Nov. 4, 1867. Honorary April 11, 1870. 


622 


CALLENDER I. LEWIS, 


Oct. 18, 


1858. 






Died Sept. 7, 1863. 


623 


J. DOVER THOxMAS, 


Feb. 8, 


1859- 






Non-active April 5, 1866. Died Jan. 26, 1867. 


624 


CHARLES F. LENNIG, 


April 20, 


1859- 


June 19, 


1862. 




625 


ROBERT E. RANDALL, 


May 9, 


1859- 






Member Pa. House of Representatives, 1861— '62. 


626 


E. WHITEHEAD SMITH, 










Non-active June i, 1874. 


627 


WILLIAM H. TAGGART, 


May i6, 


1859. 






Ass't Surgeon of the Troop. Surgeon 2nd Pa. 
Vol. Cav. 1861— 1862. Honorary April i, 1867. 














628 


DELAWARE DAVIS, ' 






June 2, 


861. 




629 
630 


EDWIN A. LEWIS 


May 23, 


1859. 






Dropped Sept. 19, 1867. 

2nd Lieut. 2nd U.S. Cav. Nov. 14,1861. i>t I.ieut. 


WILLIAM BLANCHARD, 


















1862—1865. Honorary Dec. 4, 1862. 



I go 


No. 


Memeers. 


Elected. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. 


631 


FREDERICK KLETT, JR., 


May 31, 


185C1. 




Nori-actizfe July 1, 1S66. Died Oct. 11, 1869. 


632 


STEPHEN E. SMITH, 


June 6, 


1859. 




Dropped Ivme: 20, 1867. 


633 


.ALFRED HORNER, JR., 






Oct. 1,1863. 




634 


JOS. PENROSE ASH, 








2nd Lieut. 5th U. S. Cav. April 30, 1861 ; ist Lieut. 
18621 Capt.1863; Bv'tMaj. and Lt.-Col. 1864. 
Honorary Dec. 5, 1861. Killed in battle May 8, 1864. 


635 


WILLIAM R. ANGIER, 


Oct. 5, 


1859. 


June ,9, 1862. 




636 


FRANKLIN COXE, 


Nov. 22 


1S50. 




Expelled Jnne 19, 1862. 


637 


GEORGE G. EVANS, 


Jnn. 26, 


1S60. 




Dropped A^nX 17, 1873. 


J^,-^638 


JOSEPH F. TOBIAS, 


Mar. I, 


i860. 




A. D.C. Pa. Vols.April 14,1862. Hon'ry Oct.9, 1867. 


639 


HARRISON T. DE SILVER, 




" 




Honorary June 7, 1870. Died Sept. 10, 1870. 


640 


DAVID B. BIRNEY, 


Mar. 29, 


i860. 




Lt.-Col. 23d Pa. Vol. InPy, 1861. Brig-Gen'l. 1862. 
Maj.-Gcn'l. U.S. Vols. 1863. Honorary Feb. 6, 1862 
Died Oct. 18, 1864. 


64. 


JOHN B. FASSITT, 


April 26 


i860. 




Adj't 23d Pa. Vol. Inf'y, 1861. Capt. and A. D. C. 
1862. Honorary Nov. 5, 1S63. 


642 


A. HAMILTON SMITH, 


Junes, 


1S60. 




Vol. Ass't Surgeon 7nd U. S. Cav. 1861. U. S. A. 
Hospital, Philad'a, 1862. Honorary Dec. 6, 1869. 


643 


WILLIAM H. POTTER, 


July 18, 


i860. 




Honorary Sept 4, 1862. 


644 


MICHAEL WEAVER, 


Sept. 13, 


1S60. 


May 5, 1864. 


Died 


64s 


HARVEY B. GODDARD, 


Oct. 8, 


i860. 




ist Lieut, and A. D. C. of U. S. Inf'y, 1862. 
Honorary Dec. 2, 1867. Died in Cuba, Mar. 7, 1869. 


646 


JOHN W. GRIGG, 


Oct. 25, 


i860. 




Died Aug. 24, 1869. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


647 


EDWARD G. TRASEL, 


Dec. 20 


i860. 




Non-active Feb. 3, 1868. 


648 


EDWIN A. HENDRY, 






Dec. 4, 1862. 


Died Dec. 20, 1866. 


649 


ANDREW C. CATTELL, 


Jan. 10, 


1861. 




Non-resident 1868. 


650 


GEORGE COCHRAN, 






June 19, 1862. 




651 


JOHN DEVEREUX, JR., 


Jan. 3t, 


1 86,. 




Maj. 69th Pa. Vol. Inry, Aug. 19, 1862; Lt.-Col. 
Dec. I, 1862.— Mar. 26, 1863. Maj. 21st U. S. Vet. 
Res. Corps, 1866. Honorary Feb. 6, 1S62. 


652 


JOHN A. BROWN, JR., 


Feb. 7, 


186,. 




Non-active Aug. i, 1868. 


6S3 


OLIVER W. BARNES, 


Feb. 14, 


1861. 




Non-resident Jan. i, 1867. 


6S4 


JAMES WEST, JR., 


April IS, 


1861. 




Dropped ]ane 15, 1871. Re-instated Oct. 23, 1874. 
Non-active Oct. 23, 1874. 


655 


EDWIN L. TEVIS, 








2nd Lieut. 6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) Oct. lu, 1861: 
1st Lieut. 1862—1863. Honorary Feb. 6, 1862. 


656 


G. IRVINE WHITEHEAD, 








1st Lieut. Pa.6th Vol. Cav (Lancers) Sept. 13, 1861. 
Maj. and Judge Advocate 4th Army Corps, Mar. 11, 
1S63— Sept. 30, 1864. Honorary Feb. 6, 1862. 


657 


ROBERT E. GRAY, JR., 


April 17 


1861. 




Dropped April 6, 1874. 




658 


AUGUSTUS M. CONOVER, 








Dropped Janz 18, 1868. 


659 


T. MORGAN BUDD, 








U. S. Navy. Honorary Oct. 25, 1861. 


660 


CHARLES M. WILLING, 








Died Sept. 3, i86i,of disease contracted in "three 
months' campaign." Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


661 


BENJAMIN P. SLOAN, 








ist Lieut. 2nd Pa. Vol Cav, Sept. 30, 1861 ; 
Capt. 1S64 — 1S65. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


662 


EDWARD W. WHITE, 








Honorary Sept. 3, 1863. 


663 


GEORGE GILPIN, 






Oct. 2, 1862. 




664 


ALBERT V. SLOAN, 








Adj't 2nd Pa. Vol. Cav. Sept. 14, 1861 ; Captain 
1862—1864. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


665 


GABRIEL MIDDLETON, 








Capt. 2nd Pa. Vol. Cav. Sept. 16, 1861. 
Lt-Col. 20th Pa. Vol. Cav. 1864; Col. Mar. i, 1865. 
Bv't Brig.-Gen'l. April, 1865. Honorary Oct. 15,1874. 


666 


COOPER SMITH, 


April .3 


1861. 


Sept. 5, 1861. 




667 


HORACE P. MITCHELL, 






Feb. 6, 1S62. 


1st Lieut. 3d Pa. Vol Artillery, May 6, 1863- 
Aug. 16, 1865. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


668 


HARTMAN KUHN, 






Nov. 8, 1861. 


Died in Rome, Italy, Jan. 21, 1870. 


669 


JAMES D. RELF, JR., 








Dropped K^xWd, 1865. 




670 


ROBERT P. WILSON, 








Adj't 3d Pa. Vol. Cav. Jan. 1862. 1st Lieut. 5th 
U. S. Cav. IMay 8, 1864. Capt. 5th U. S. Cav. 
June 12, 1869. Honorary Oct. 15. 1874. 


671 


JOHN H. CASWELL, 






Aug. I, 1861. 


Died Nov. 14, 1866. 


672 


D. C. F. RIVINUS, 






Dec. I, 1S64. 




673 


ANDREW J. PEMBERTON. 


. 






2nd Lieut. 23d Pa. Vol. Inf'y, 1862—1863. Cript. 
id Md. Vol. Cav. 1863— 1864. 1st Lieut. 3d Pa, Vol, 
Cav. 1865. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


674 


LEWIS McMAKIN, 








and Lieut 13th Pa. Vol. Cav. 1862—1865. 
Honorary Nov. i, 1862. 







^^iH^ Jif /Un^<^ J—^ 










'~}-^-^L^t-J,'^\y\^ 



191 



No. 


Members. 


Elected. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. 


67s 


FRANK D. WETHERILL, 


April 18, 1861. 


Feb. 6 


1862. 


2nd Lieut. 3d Pa. Vol.Cav. Feb. 17, 1862 ; ist Lieut. 
1862 ; Capt. 1863 -1864. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


676 


HENRY TUCKER, 


April ig, 1861. 






ist Lieut. 6th U. S. Cav. Aug. 5, 1861 : Bv't Capt. 
1863. Honorary Sept. 3, 1863. Died Oct. 20, 1866. 


677 


WM. STEVENSON DAVIS, 








Died Nov. 29, 1864. 


678 


JAMES H. HARPER, 




Nov. I 


1861. 




679 


CHARLES E. RICHARDS, 








ist Lie-Jt.6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) Sept.23, 1861 : 
Capt. 1862 — 1863. Honorary Nov. 7, 1861. 


680 


CLIFFORD PEMBERTON, 




Feb. 6. 


1862. 




681 


N. PARKER H.4VEN, 








.Vai!-rc-s!,ic-iit Mar. 6, 1862. 


632 


EDWARD S. WHELEN, JR.. 








.\-.m-,-siJci,t May 4, 1868. 


683 


JOSEPH P. WOOD, 




Feb. 6, 


1S6S, 




684 


WILLIAM W. WOOD, 








DroppedUcc. 19, 1867. 






685 


JOSEPH P. BRINTON, 








Maj. 2nd Pa. Vol.Cav. Oct. 1861; Lt.-Col. 1862 ; 
Bv't Col. 1864. Judge Adv. Army of the Potomac, 
Oct. 1864. Honorary Nov. 7, 1861. 


686 


JAMES HENRY H.4SELTINE, 








Capt. 6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) Sept. 18, 1861; 
Major Mar. i— Nov. 12, 1863. Honorary Feb. 6,1862. 


687 


CALVIN D. MEHAFFEY, 








2nd Lieut, ist U. S. InPy Aug. 5, 1861 : 
Capt. Nov. 26, 1864. Died, Florence, N. J., Jan. 28, 
1871. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


688 


GALLOWAY C. MORRIS, 




Feb. 6, 


1862. 




689 


ALEXANDER LESLEY, 




Nov. 2 


1865. 




690 


SAMUEL H. J.A.COBS, 








/)«//,■«' Nov. 6, 1862. 






691 


WM. HARVEY MERRITT, 




.^pril 7, 


1S64. 




692 


JOHN BORTHWICK, 








Engineer U. S. N. Honorary Nov. 7, 1861. 


693 


EDWARD S. COOPER, 








Droji/ied Dec. 4, 1862. 






694 


WILLIAM H. HOWELL, 




Feb. 3, 


1S68. 


Resigned Nov. 7, i86i. Re-elected Sept. 12, 1862. 


695 
696 


WILLIAM H. BUTLER, 
JOHN THOMPSON, 








Drupfcd April 6, 1865. 

Resigtied Oct.. 6, 1864. Re-elected May 6, 1S66. 




June I, 


1868. 


697 


ALEXANDER HEMSLEV, 




Feb. 4, 


1864. 




698 


ROBERT W. BICKLEY. 








2nd Lieut. 3d Pa. Vol. Artillery Nov. 13, 1862: 
ist Lieut. 1864; Capt. 1S65. Honorary Oct. 15, 1874. 


699 
700 


R. PATTERSON KANE, 
JOSEPH R. PAXTON, 








Dropped Sept. 17, 1867. 

Capt. 15th U.S. Inf'y,i86i. Honorary Nov.7,1861. 


















Died in Houston, Texas, Aug. 20, 1867. 


701 


WILLIAM W.WURTS, 




Aug. I, 


1861. 




702 


JOSEPH R. BURKE, 








Dropped Sefl. 6, 1861. 








703 


HORACE Y. EVANS, 








Surgeon of the Troop. Surg. U. S. A. May, 1S63. 
Honorary Feb. 5,1863. 


704 


NALBRO- FRAZIER, JR., 








Capt.2nd Pa. Vol.Cav. Nov. 23,1861— June 16,1864. 
Honorary May 4, 1868. 


705 


D.\NIEL W. RIDDLE, 




Aug. 1, 


186,. 




706 


JOSHUA T. OWEN, 


May 13, 1861. 


May 31, 


1861. 


Col. 24th Pa. Vol. Infy, 1861 : Col. 69th Pa. Vol. 
Inf y, 1861 : Brig.-Gen'l, Nov. 29, 1862. 


707 


CHARLES E.CADWALADER, 








ist Lieut. 6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) Oct. 3, 1861: 
Capt. 1862 : Brevet Maj. and Lt.-Col. 1865. 
Honorary Oct. 14, 1874. 


708 


HENRY ASHHURST, 








Non-active Feb. 7, 1870. 


709 


FRANKLIN S. SEITZINGER, 


May 7, 1861. 


Nov. 7, 


1 861. 


Died 


710 


CHARLES L. LEIPER, 


May 9, 1861. 






ist Lieut. 6th Pa. Vol. Cav. ( Lancers) Sept. 7, 1861: 
Capt. 1862; Major 1864; Lt.-Col. 1865; Col. 1865. 
Bv't Blig.-Gen'l.Mar.i3,i865. Honorary Feb.6,1862. 


711 


RUDOLPH ELLIS, 








• Adj't6th Pa. Vol.Cav. (Lancers) Nov. 20, 1862; 
Capt. April II— Dec.27,1864. Honorary June 7,1870. 


712 


CHARLES S. KEYSER, 


May 12, 1861. 


Feb. 5, 


1863. 




71J 


EDWARD LOWBER, JR., 


" 


May I, 


1862. 


Died Dec. 10. 1866. 


714 


EMLEN N. CARPENTER, 


May 17,1861. 






2nd Lieut.6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) Sept. 13,1861; 
ist. Lieut. 1S62; Capt. 1863 ; Bv't Maj. and Lt.-Col. 
1865. Honorary Dec. 6, 1869. 


715 


WILLIAM P. BRINTON, 


July 8, 1861. 






Capt. 2nd Pa. Vol. Cav. Oct. i, 1861. Lt.-Col. 
i8lh Pa.V0l.Cav.1863— 1865. Honorary Dec. 6, 1869. 


716 


OSGOOD WELSH, 


July 19,1861. 


Sept. 5 


1 861' 


2nd Lieut. 6th Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) 1862— 1863. 


717 


WILLIAM C. BAKER, 


Oct. 25, 1861. 






Non-active Dec. 7, 1868. 


718 


FR-\NCIS E. FELTON 


Sept. 8, 1862. 






Dropped im. 4, i866. 


719 


WII,L1.\M P. CONOVER, JR , 


Nov. I, 


1863. 


720 


JOHN LOWBER WELSH, 




Feb. 4, 


1864. 













192 






No. 
721 


Members. 


Elected. 


Resigned. 


Remarks. 




J. LINDLEY JOHNSON, 


Sept. 12 


1862. 




Non-active Jan. 5. 1874. 


722 


FRANCIS BARTON, 


" 




Oct. 6, 1S64. 






723 
7=4 


JOSEPH R. WILKINS, JR., 
WILLIAM H. CAXBY, 








Nan-active Nov. 3, 1871. 

Died Nov. s, 1869. 




725 


JAMES D. WAGNER, 








Died Dec. 24, 1867. 




726 


RICHARD S. M.\SON, 






Jan. 5. 1865. 






727 

728 


PETER A. BROWNE, 
GEORGE MARTIN, 


Sept. 13 


J 862. 




Non-resident Nov. 5, 1868. 
Z)roAi>frfApril6, 1865. 




729 


A. LOUDON SNOWDEN, 












730 


HENRY S. WATTS, 


" 


" 


Dec. 4, 1862. 






731 


CHARLES B. COXE, 








2nd Lieut.eth Pa.Vol.Cav.(Lancers) Nov. 20,1862; 
ist Lieut. 1864; Captain 1864; Major, 1865. 
Honorary April 6, 1866. Died Jan. 3, 1873. 




732 


RICHARD L. WILLING, 






Feb. s, 1863. 






733 


GEORGE E. BENSON, 


Sept. 29 


1862. 


Aug. 6, 1863. 


Died Oct. II, 1865. 




734 


WILLIAM HALL MERCER. 


Dec. I, 


J 862. 




Died June 26, 1866. 




735 


0. WILSON DAVIS, 


Feb. 5, 


1863. 


Dec. 7, 1868. 






736 


WILLIAM A. BORTHWICK, 


Sept. 3, 


1863- 




Honorary June 3, 1867. ist Lieut. 6th U. S. 
Cav. DiedinTexas, June II, 1872. 




737 


GEORGE H. COLKET, 






Feb. 7, 1870. 






738 


R. SOMERS HAYS, 








Non-active Mar. 4, 1872. 




739 


T. CAMPBELL OAKMAN, 








2nd Lieut.eth Pa. Vol. Cav. (Lancers) Mar. 4, 1865; 
ist Lieut. 1865 : Capt. 1865. Non-active Mar. 4, 1872. 




74° 


WILLIAM E. ROGERS, 








Lieut. U. S. Engineers. Honorary Sept. 1863. 




741 


GILBERT H. NEWHALL, 








Non-active Feb. 7, 1871. 




742 


A. CHARLES BARCLAY, 






May s, 1864. 






743 


ALFRED C. HARRISON, 






Nov. 3, 1864. 






744 


GEORGE MORRIS, 






Feb. 4, 1864. 






745 


EDWARD H. SHAW, 






Jan. 4. ,86S. 


Non-resident November, 1863. 




746 


JONES WISTER, 








Non-resident Oct. 3. 1863. 




747 


CHARLES M. RHOADS, 


" 




Feb. 4, 1864. 






748 


CLEMENT B. BISHOP, 






Oct. 7, 1867. 






749 
750 


CHARLES W. BROOKS, 
THEODORE WRIGHT, 








Zlro/Zfrf June 18, 1868. 








Jan. 4, 1866. 




751 


ALFRED D. JESSUP, JR., 








Non-active Nov. 7, 1870. 




752 


STEPHEN T. SOUDER, 








Non-active April 7, 1874. 




753 


EDWARD S. LAWRANCE 


Jan. 7, 


1864. 








754 


SIDNEY H. BROWNE, 


Feb. 4, 


1864. 




2nd Lieut, ist Md. Vol. Cav. 1864 : ist Lieut. 1865. 
Honorary April 7, 1864. 




755 


ROB'T. JARVIS C. WALKER, 


June 4, 


1864. 




Non-active Oct. 2, 1871. 




7S6 


P. FREDERICK GODDARD, 


July 12, 


1864. 




Resigned Ocl. 6, 1864. Re-elected May 13, 1867. 
Non-active Mar. 2, 1874. 




757 


EDMUND RANDALL, 








Drojiped }nne ^a, 1867. 




758 


W. GEORGE OAKMAN, 


Nov. 3, 


1864. 




Non-active Mar. 4, 1872. 




759 


FRANK H. CLARK, 






Nov. 5, 1866. 


iBt Lieut. 114th Pa. Vol. InPy, 1862— 1863. 




760 


BENJAMIN W. FRAZIER, 


April i3 


1865. 


May 7, 1866. 






761 


HENRY PEPPER, 


Nov. 2, 


1865. 


Feb. 3, 1868. 






76. 


PETER P. BREEN, 






May 4, 1868. 






763 


WILLIAM H. CHANDLER, 


" 






Non-active April 6, 1874. 




764 
765 


J. BOLTON HULME, 
CHARLES H. GIBSON, 


Feb. I 


1866. 




Exfelled June 2, 1873. 
Dro/'/'edDitc. 19, 1867. 




Mar. I, 


1866. 






766 


EMMOR D.FRENCH, 


May 7, 


1866. 




Non-active Jan. 5, 1874. 




767 


THEODORE M. MORGAN, 






t)ec. s, 1870. 




.^ 


768 
769 
770 


HARRY W. DAVIS, 


Nov. i, 


1866. 




Dropped lime. 15, 1871. 
Dropped Sept. 16, 1869. 
Non-actiz>e Nov. 4, 1874. 




CHARLES H. STEWART, 


May 6, 
Nov. 4, 


1867. 

1867. 






JAMES J. MACDOWELL, 






771 


P. LACEY GODDARD, 






Dec. 6, 1869. 


2nd Lieut. 8th Pa. Vol. Cav. Sept. 24, 1861 ; 
ist Lieut and Adj'J. 1862; Capt. 1862. Capt. and 
A. D. C. H'dq's. Cav. Corps A. of P. 1863—1864. 




772 


JOHN B. DICKSON, 








Resigned Dec. 6, 1869. Re-elected Nov. 9, 1874. 




773 


WI LLIAM STRUTHERS, JR. , 








Resigned 'ixmti i, 1868. Re-elected ItcfK. 30, 1874. 




774 


ROBERT GREER, 








Died June 12, 1873. 




775 
776 


JEREMIAH L, HUTCHINSON 
HENRY P. REPPLIER, 


Feb. I, 


1868. 




/>>■,.//.</ Nov. 4, 1872. 
Dropped Mar. 20, 1873. 









193 



THOMAS W. NEILL, 

WILLIAM McCANDLESS, 
JOS. LAPSLEY WILSON, 
JOHN HOCKLEY, JR., 
THOMAS J. MAGILL, 
FRED'K W. FOTTERALL, 

ROBERT P. KING, 
THOMAS HOCKLEY, 
CLARENCE COWTON, 
J. STANLEY BRUNER, 
PEIRCE ARCHER, 
FRANCIS F. MAURY, 
WILLIAM P. MANGE, 
ROBERT P. DECHERT, 



W. O'S. DIMPFEL, 
SAMUEL N. CLAPP, 
GEORGE ZINN, 



JOHNL. STEINER, 
CHARLES T. YERKES, JR., 
WILLIAM D. GEMMILL, 
ROB'T. WALTER DEMING, 
MYER ASCH, 

ALEXANDER W. NUTT, 
WILLIAM H. GAW, 
ALFRED H. WALTERS, 
EDWARD H. WEBB, 
A. FULLERTON PHILLIPS, 
JOSEPH I. DORAN, 
J. WEST RULON, 
JOS. WM. BATES, JR., 
HENRY S. LEECH, 
DAVID C. LEECH, 
JAMES K. SCOFIELD, 

PEROT LARDNER, 
SAMUEL WELSH, JR., 
HUGH CRAIG, JR., 
CHARLES C. DUNN, JR., 
JOSEPH WRIGHT, 
RICH. H. TOWNSEND, JR., 
FROST THORN. 
WILLIAM F. LEWIS, 
WALTER E. PENROSE, 
ROBERTS VAUX, 
L. TAYLOR DICKSON, 
WILLIAM B. CHURCHMAN, 
HARRY P. NORRIS, 
J. AUBREY JONES, 
EDWARD WALN, JR., 
WILLIAM R. WHITE, 
JOHNC. LOVE, 
GEORGE R. WOOD, 
ALBERT L. MURPHY, 
H. CORBIT OGDEN, 
THOMAS P. C. STOKES, 
I. ROGERS, 



June I, 1868. 
July 4, 1868. 



4. 1869. 



Feb. I, 1869, 
Feb. i3, 1869. 
May 3, 1869. 
June 7, 1869. 
Oct. 4, i86q. 



030 1 nwivj 
831 IJOHN 



Jan. 17, 1870. 



Feb. 7, 1870. 



May 2, 1870. 
Nov. 7, 1870. 



Mar. 6, 1871. 
Oct. 2, 1871. 
Feb. 12, 1872. 

April I, 1872. 
June 10, 1872. 
Dec. 2, 1S72. 



Jan. 6, 1873. 



April 7, 1873. 
May 5, 1873. 



Aprils, 
Mar. 4, 



Nov. 7, 
Dec. 6, 



Dec. 31. 1S73. 



2nd Lieut. 6th Pa.Vol.Cav. (Lancers) Nov 30 t86i 
St Lieut. Nov. 20, 1862— Aug. 13, 1863. 
Dropped A.^r\\(,, 1874. 



Dropped M3.r , 20, 1S73. 
Capt. and A. D. C, Nat. Guard of Pa. 
Honorary May 2, 1S70, 
Dropped M3.r. 20, 1873. 



i37c^i874. 



Xez'cr equipped. 
Dropped }a.n. 5, 



[874. Ke-iftsfated Nov. 2, 1874. 



Surgeon of the Troop 

ist Lieut. 29th Pa. Vol. Infy, Jan. 16, 186 
Capt. 1864; Major, 1865 : Bv't Lt. -Col. Mar. 
Member ot Senate of Penn'a, 1872. 



2nd Lieut. 84th Pa. Vol. InPy, Oct. i, 1861 ; 
Capt. 1862; Major, 1862; Lt.-Col. May 10, 1864. 
Col. S7th Pa. Vol. Infy, Feb. I, 1865. Bv't Brig.- 
Gen'l. April 6, 1865. 

Died Nov. 12, 1872. 
Dropped Ma.r. 4, 1S72. 



2nd Lieut, ist N. J. Vol. Cav. Feb. 1862 ; ist Lieut. 
862 ; Capt. 1862. Bv't Major, Lt.-Col. and Col. 1865. 
Dropped June 2, iij3. 



Propped Ma 



Non-resident Jan. 6, 1873. 
A'oK-resident Jan. 6, 1873. 
Capt. and A. D. C, U. S. Vols. Aug. 3, 
Bv't Major and Lt.-Col. 1865. 



Non-resident De 



194 



No. 


Members. 


Elected. 




Remarks. 


832 'george sharswood.jr., 


Dec. I. 1873. 






833 


EDWARD S.LAWRANCEJR., 


Jan. 5, .874. 






834 


JOSEPH T. PRATT, 






C.apt. 32nd U.S.Col. Troops, reb.i7,i864; Major, 








May 15 — .Aug. 22, 1865. Judge of Court of Common 










Pica.";, Philad'a, October, 1874. 


835 


GEORGE A. AUDENREin, 








836 


RALPH M. TOWNSEND, 


Jan. ■ = , 1S74. 




Ass't Surg, of the Troop. Honorary Nov. 2, 1874. 


837 WILLIAM MEADE, 








838 HARRY W. PRICE, 


Jan. 19, ,874. 






839 


EDWARD BURD GRUBB, 


Feb. 2, 1874. 




2nd Lieut. 3d N. J. Vol. Inf'y, June 18, 1861: 
ist Lieut. i86ir Capt. 1862. Maj. 23d N. J. Vol. 
Infy, Dec. 9, 1862; Lt.-Col. 1862; Col. 1863— 1864. 
Bv't Brig.-Gen'l. May 5, 1863. 










840 


LOUIS SNYDER, 






ist Lieut, iglh U. S. Inf'y, May 14, 1861— 1S64. 
Non-resident Oct. 15, 1874. 


841 


JOHN WRIGHT, 


Mar. =, .874. 






84= 


J. HERON CROSMAN, 








843 


CHARLES E. KELLY, 


April 6, 1S74. 






844 


J. EMLEN SMITH. 








845 


THEOPHB. PETERSON, JR., 








846 


W. HORNER SMITH, 


June I, 1874. 






847 


LLOYD BANK.SON, JR., 


Sept. 30, 1874. 






848 


ROBERT ADAMS, JR. 


Oct. 15, 1874. 






849 


NORWOOD P. SENAT, 


Oct. 26, 1874. 






850 


W. MASTERS CAMAC, 


Nov. 2, 1874. 






85. 


JOHN A. KING, 








85. 


HEXT M. PERRY, 






Assistant Surgeon of the Troop. 


853 


FREDERICK SYLVESTER, 


Nov. 9, 1874. 






854 


SAM'L. W. MILLER PETERS, 









NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENT, OCTOBER 25, 1765. 



The Merchants and Traders of the City of Philadelphia, taking into their consideration the 
Melancholy state of the North- American Commerce in general, and the distressed situation of this Province 
of Pennsylvania in particular, do unanimously agree : That the many difficulties they now labour under, 
as a trading people, are owing to the Restrictions, Prohibitions, and ill-advised Regulations made in several 
Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, lately passed to regulate the Colonies ; which have limited the 
Exportation of some part of our Country Produce ; increased the cost and expense of many Articles of our 
Importation ; and cut off from us all means of supplying ourselves with Specie enough, even to pay the duties 
imposed on us, much less to serve as a Medium of our Trade. That this Provmce is heavily in Debt to 
Great Britain for the Manufactures and other Importations from thence, which the Produce of our lands 
have been found unequal to pay for, when a free exportation of it to the best Markets was allowed of, and 
such trades open as supplied us with Cash, and other Articles of immediate remittance, to Great Britain : 
That the late unconstitutional law, the Stamp-Act, if carried into execution in this Province, will further 
tend to prevent our making those Remittances to Great Britain, for payment of old Debts, or purchase of 
more Goods, which the Faith subsisting between the. Individuals trading with each other requires. And, 
therefore, in justice to ourselves, to the Traders of Great Britain, who usually give us Credit, and to the 
Consumers of British Manufactures in this Province, the Subscribers hereto have voluntarily and unanimously 
come into the following resolutions and agreements, in hopes that their Example will stimulate the good 
people of this Province, lo be frugal in their use and ccnsiimplion of all Manufactures, excepting those of 
America, and lawful goods coming directly from Ireland, manufactured there, whilst the necessities of our 
Country are such as to require it ; and, in hopes that their Brethren, the Merchants and Manufacturers of 
Great Britain, will find their own interest so intimately connected with ours, that they will be spurred on to 
befriend us from that Motive, if no jther should take place. 

First. It is unanimously resolved and agreed, that, in all orders, any of the Subscribers to this Paper 
may send to Great Britain for goods, they shall and will direct their Correspondents not to ship them until 
the Stamp-Act is Repealed. 

Secondly. That all those amongst the Subscribers that have already sent orders to Great Britain for 
goods, shall and will immediately countermand the same until the Stamp-Act is Repealed. 

Thirdly. That none of the Subscribers hereto shall or will vend any Goods or Merchandize what- 
soever that shall be shipped them on Commission from Great Britain after the first day of January, unless the 
Stamp-Act be Repealed. 



Fourthly. That these resolves and Agreements shall be binding on all and each of us, the Sub- 
scribers, who do hereby, each and ever>- Person for himself, upon his word ok honour, agree that he will 
strictly and firmly adhere to, and abide by, every article from this time till the first day of May next ; when a 
Meeting of the Subscribers shall be called, to consider whether the further continuance of this obligation be 
then Necessary. 

Fifthly. It is agreed, that if goods of any kind do arrive from Great Britain, at such time or under 
such circumstances as to render any signer of this Agreement suspected of having broken his Promise, the 
Committee now appointed shall enquire into the premises, and if such suspected person refuses, or cannot 
give them Satisfaction, the Subscribers hereto will, unanimously, take all prudent measures to discountenance 
and prevent the Sale of such goods, until they are released from the agreement by mutual and general 
Consent. 

Lastly. As it may be necessary that a Committee of the Subscribers be appointed to wait on the 
Traders of this City, to get this present agreement universally subscribed, the following Gentlemen are ap- 
pointed for that Purpose. — Thomas Willing & Samuel Mifflin, Esqrs., Thomas Montgomery, Samuel Howell, 
Samuel Wharton, John Rhea, William Fisher, Joshua Fisher, Peter Chevalier, Benjamin Fuller & Able James. 

This agreement was signed by three hundred and seventy-five merchants of Philadel- 
phia; among whom the names of the following members of the Company appear, all of 
whom served in the War of the Revolution ; the first twelve being of the twenty-eight 
founders of the Troop. 

Andrew Allen, 

Samuel Morris, Jr., 

James Mease, ( Mease & Miller), 

James Hunter, 

James Budden, 

John Mease, 

William Pollard, 

John Boyle, 

William Tod, ( Willing & Tod), 

John Mitchell, (Carson, Barclay & Mitchell), 

Samuel Caldwell, 

Andrew Caldwell, i Willm & And" Caldwell), 

David H. Conyngham, (Conyngham & Nesbitt), 

John M. Nesbitt, (Conyngham & Neseitt), 

Isaac Cox, 

Thomas Bond, Jr., 

Cadwalader Morris, (Cad. & Saml. C. Morris). 



FRAGMENT OF A REPORT from a detachment of the Troop, found among the 
papers of Captain Markoe, to whom it was addressed : 

Albany, Monday morng. ibth Octr lyyj. 
Sir. 

We have the pleasure to inform you of our safe arrival 
here with the Cash under our Care having met with no inter- 
ruption in our march. 

The Express has just engaged a waggon to carry the 
money forward which will be ready to proceed with us imme- 
diately after dinner say i o'clock so that we hope to reach 
Ticonderoga some time on Wednesday night. 

We have nothing further that's material to communi- 
cate but as it is our Duty so we hope it will be agreeable to 
you to know that we are so far safe on so long a Journey 
& may be satisfactory to the 

to receive this 
to assure them that w 
ommands in the best manner possible — 

being gone to Ticonderoga we shall 
the letter we have in charge directed for 
behalf of the Gentn of our Party & by Order 
all. Sir, Yr. Obt. Servt., 

SAM'L CALDWELL. 



THE FOLLOWING is a copy of a printed circular which has been preserved among the 
Troop, papers bearing upon the Mutiny referred to on page 27 of this book. 
On the third line the word " Princeton" is written over the word "Trenton" erased. Captain Morris 
and Private Blair McCIenachan were two of the three commissioners appointed under the terms of this paper. 

PROPOSALS 

Made to the non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the 
Pennsylvania Line, at Princeton, January 7, ijSi. 

HIS Excellency Joseph liccd. Esquire, President, and the Honourable Brigadier-General Potter, of 
the Council of Pennsylvania, having heard the Complaints of the Soldiers, as represented by the 
Sergeants, inform them, that they are fully authorized to redress reasonable Grievances, and they 
have the fullest Disposition to make them as easy as possible ; for which End they propose. 

First. That no non-commissioned Officer or Soldier shall be detained beyond the Time for which he 
freely and voluntarily engaged, but where they appear to have been in any Respect compelled to enter or sign, 
such Enlistment to be deemed void, and the Soldier discharged. 

Secondly. To settle who are and who are not bound to stay, three Persons to be appointed by the 
President and the Council, who are to examine into the Terms of Enlistment ; — where the original Enlist- 
ments cannot be found, the Soldier's Oath to be admitted to prove the Time and Terms of Enlistment, and 
the Soldier to be discharged upon his Oath of the Condition of the Enlistment. 

Thirdly. Where-ever any Soldier has enlisted for three Years or during the War, he is to be discharged, 
unless he shall appear afterwards to have re-enlisted voluntarily and freely. — The Gratuity of One hundred 
Dollars given by Congress, not to be reckoned as a Bounty, or any Men detained in Consequence of that 
Gratuity. — The Commissioners to be appointed by the President and Council, to adjust any Difficulties which 
may arise on this Article also. 

Fourthly. The Auditors to attend as soon as possible, to settle the Depreciation with the Soldiers and 
give them Certificates. — Their Arrearages of Pay to be made up as soon as Circumstances will admit. 

Fifthly. A Pair of Shoes, Overalls and Shirt will be delivered to each Soldier in a few Days, as they 
are already purchased and ready to be sent forward, whenever the Line shall be settled. — Those who are dis- 
charged to receive the above Articles at Trenton, producing the General's Discharge. 

The Governor hopes that no Soldier of the Pettnsylvania Line will break his Bargain, or go from the 
Contract made with the Public — and they may depend upon it, that the utmost Care will be taken to furnish 
them with evei-y Necessary fitting for a -Soldier. 

The Governor will recommend to the State to take some favourable Notice of those who engage for 
the War. 

The Commissioners will attend at Trenton, where the Clothing and the Stores will be immediately 
brought, and the Regiments to be settled with in their Order. A Field Officer of each Regiment to attend 
during the Settlement of his Regiment. 

Pursuant to General Wayne'i Orders of the 2d Instant, no Man to be brought to any Trial or Censure 
for what has happened on or since New-Year's Day, but all Matters to be buried in Oblivion. 

JOS. REED, 
JAMES POTTER. 



THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT paid by the Troop for the entertainment given by it to 
General Washington at the City Tavern, Philadelphia, is here inserted in the absence 



of a bill of fare. 



Light Troop of Horse, 

September the 14th 1787 

To Edw" Moyston Dr 

To 55 Gentlemens Dinners & fruit Rellishes Ollives &c 20. 12. 6 

54 Bottles of Madera 20. 5. o 

60 of Claret ditto 21. o. o 

8 ditto of Old Stock 3. 6. 8 

22 Bottles of Porter ditto 2. 15. o 

8 of Cyder ditto l5. o 

12 ditto Beer 12. o 

7 Large Bowls of Punch 4. 4. o 

Segars Spermacity Candles &c 2. 5. o 

To Decanters Wine Glass & Tumblers Broken &c i. 2. 6 

To 16 Musician & Servants dinners 2. o. o 

16 Bottles of Claret 5. 12. o 

5 ditto Madera i. 17. 6 

7 Bowls of Punch 2. 16. o 

£&9- 4-2 



c 



AMP REGULATIONS AT MOUNT BULL. 



Regularity of Conduct in every individual and strict obedience of orders is expected. 

The Orderly Sergt. will keep a regular Roster and Orderly Book — All Guards will be detailed at 
Evening Parade by him and delivered to the proper Non-Com. Officers and he will see that all Orders are 
strictly carried into Execution — The Guards for the present will be 

1. The Vidette of the day. 

2. A Camp Guard of 2 N. C. Officers & 4 privates to be stationed according to circumstances on the 
most eligible situations — the N. C. Officers to relieve each other every 4 hours and the Sentinels every 2 hours. 

3. The Patroles. 

4. The Police Guard to consist of the Camp Guard of the preceeding day, whose duty shall be to 
clean the Camp, furnish wood & water and attend all fatigue duty of the day. 

Two as Cooks for the succeeding day will be detailed by the Q. Master. 

At 4 A. M. the whole detachment will turn out, saddle & remain ready to mount 'till return of Patroles, 
after day light — when, if they report Alls well— the Stable Call will be sounded — the Horses will be unsaddled, 
cleaned, watered & fed — after which the Gentlemen will prepare for Breakfast at 8 A. M. — At 9 A. M. Boots 
& Saddles and Sword Drill— At lo A. M. To Horse and Drill— At 12 M. Water Call and feed— At 2 P. M. 
Dinner Call— At 3 P. M. Saddles.— At 3^ To Horse and Drill.— At 5 P. M. Water Call and Horses put 
up for the the Night — At 6j4 Evening Parade — At sun-setting. The Retreat — Supper & all fires & lights ex- 
tinguished — At 8 P. M. Watch Setting, when Silence must take place & be preserved thro'out the Night. 

In case of Alarm it is expected every one will turn out with alacrity but without hurry & confusion or 
the least noise of Voice, Rattling of Swords or otherwise — Saddle and repair to such station as ordered with- 
out asking any questions. Silence on all occasions on duty is expected but in case of a Night Alarm most 
positively demanded. Non Commissioned Officers to give Orders to Sentinels in a distinct & low tone of 
voice — No Sentinel to pay any compliment after sun set or know any one after dark, but by the Countersign 
which must also be given in a distinct & low tone of voice. Sentinels will be particularly careful how they 
occasion alarms — If they discover anything suspicious they must immediately call the Officer of the Watch 
without noise, who will if he thinks it necessary call the Commanding Officer. 

By order 

CHARLES ROSS, Capt. 

Vidette Outpost Mount Bull Commanding Videttes 

1st Sept: 1S14. 



L 



1ST OF SUBSCRIBERS to the Troop Equipment Fund of July, 1864. 



Of the whole amount contributed, ^10,615.00; $9,615.43 (go)i per cent.) was returned to the sub- 
scribers with a letter of thanks to which was annexed the following extract from the minutes : 

•' Resolved, That the thanks of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry be tendered to the patriotic 
gentlemen and corporations who so liberally responded when called upon for money needed to assist the 
Troop in purchasing horses for recruits and others, who were themselves unable to bear the whole expense, 
and that, after deducting the actual loss on the horses bought with tliis fund, the balance of the money be 
returned to the contributors.'* 

Singleton A. Mercer, 

Thomas Smith, 

Philadelphia Bank, 

Pennsylvania R. K. Co., 

Philad'a & Reading R. R. Co., 

Insurance Co. of North America, 

Delaware Mutual Insurance Co., 

McKean, Borie & Co., 

Penn'a Co. for Ins. on Lives, &c., 

Philadelphia Saving Fund, 

Franklin Fire Insurance Co., 

The Mutual Assurance Co., 

Philadelphia Contributionship, 

First N.\tional Bank, 

C. & H. Borie, 

S. & W. Welsh. 

George C. Car.son, 

A. D. Jessup, 

E. W. Clark & Co., 

Drexel & Co., 



,000 


Jay Cooke & Co., 


$200. 


500 


H. T. De Silver, 


•SO. 


500 


Stephen T. Souder, 


150. 


500 


Edward S. Whelen, Jr., 


100. 


500 


0. W. Davis, 


100. 


500 


Charles H. Graff, 


100 


500 


Charles Howell, 


100 


500 


Thomas Sparks. 


100 


500 


Charles W. Cushman, 


100 


500 


BowEN & Fox, 


100 


SCO 


M. Thomas & Sons, 


100 


500 


Gaw, Macalester & Co , 


100 


300 


Work, McCouch & Co., 


loq 


250 


Yarnali. & Trimble, 


100 


250 


Massev, Collins & Co., 


100. 


250 


Jas. Graham & Co., 


1 00. 


250 


Tyler & Co., 


100. 


250 


Union Mutual Insurance Co., 


100 


200 


Bank of Commerce, 


100 


200 


T. A. Biddle & Co., 


75- 



p 



ROCEEDINGS IN EQUITY for the recovery of the Letter of Discharge which had 
J- been given to the Troop by General Washington at the close of the Trenton and Prince- 
ton campaign, and which has been in the possession of Captain Samuel Morris and his 
descendants since the year 1S03, were begun in the jear 1S66; Edward Wain, Esq., 
having volunteered his services, ably conducted the argument on behalf of the Troop. The 
following is an abstract of the case as reported in 18 P. F. Smith, page 16 : — 

Supreme Court of Pennsylvani.-\. Morris' Appeal, February 21st, 1S71. Before Thompson, C. J., 
Agnew, Sharswood, and Williams, J. J. Read, J., at Nisi Prius. Appeal from the decree at Nisi Prius: 
In Equity: No. 22 to January Term, 1S67. 

The bill was filed November I3lh, iS66,by the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, against Samuel 
Morris and EUiston P. Morris. 

V)ti(ixte pro forma for complainant. 
The defendants appealed. 
P. Pemberlon Morris, Esq., for appellants. 
Edward Wain, Esq., for appellees. 

The opinion of the Court was delivered March 2d, 187 1, by 

Sharswood, J. — In 1774, a number of gentlemen of Philadelphia formed a volunteer company of 
cavalry and tendered their services to the Continental Congress. They called themselves " The Philadelphia 
Troop of Light Horse." They served during several years of the war of the Revolution. At the close of 
the campaign of 1776-7, perhaps the most arduous of the whole contest, General Washington, by a general 
order, after the performance of their tour of duty, discharged them from the service for the time being, and 
in doing so took occasion to compliment them in high teniis for their discipline and bravery. 

The document is not a letter addressed either to the Troop or their commander, but just what I have 
designated it, a "general order," concluding formally, as all orders do: "Given at Headquarters at Moms- 
town, this 23d January, 1777." That this general order should be transmitted to the captain of the Troop, 
to be read at their head, was in the usual course of military procedure. It would be a very curious question, 
and not easy on principle or authority to determine, in whom the property of the paper vested, when it was so 
transmitted. It may be that the gentlemen then composing the Troop would be joint-owners, and then it 
would seem to follow that whoever had possession might hold it as against the other proprietors, but that on 
his death it would go to the survivors; any one obtaining possession having a right to keep it, until the last 
survivor, who could make what use he pleased of the document, being accountable to no one. This would 
be to apply to it the rule of property as to chattels jointly owned. But then came in the Act of Assembly, 
passed March 31st, 1812, S Smith 395, which converted all joint-tenancies then existing, whether in lands or 
chattels, into tenancies in common, and abolished the right of survivorship. It appears, however, very clearly 
that from the earliest period not only the custody and possession, but the property, was recognized to be in 
Samuel Morris, then the captain of the Troop. The circumstances clearly evince that this was acquiesced 
in by all the gentlemen interested. Captain Marris resigned his command in 1783. In 1794, John Dunlap 
was chosen captain. Some time afterwards, within a short period, he had prepared, as it would seem, at his 



own expense, a silver plate, so as to admit a likeness of General Washington, and had engraved on it the 
words of the general order of discharge, together with the names of the gentlemen members of the Troop 
at the time it was issued. In a letter to him, without date. Captain Dunlap requests Captain Morris to accept 
this plate "as a testimony of merited esteem." On the reverse of the plate is also engraved these words: 
" As a testimony of attachment to my valued friend, Captain Samuel Morris, and for the better preservation 
of the certificate from our beloved general, in which the feelings of the gentlemen of the Troop and of myself 
are interested, I have caused it to be engraven on this plate, of which I ask his acceptance. John Di;nlap." 
The letter before referred to also states: " A recess is formed on the back part of the plate to admit and pre- 
serve the original, which should be, as far as in our power, protected from accident or injury." It is not a 
subject of contention, and cannot be, that the silver case was presented to and became the private property 
of Captain Morris. What could well be more absurd than the idea that the silver case should be owned 
and possessed separate and apart from the paper it was made for the purpose of preserving ! There are no 
minutes extant of the Troop at that period, but it is not to be supposed for a moment, from the character of 
the gentlemen and the nature of the transaction, that this thing was done in a comer. It was no doubt 
known to all the members of 1777, who were then surviving, and met their entire approbation. From that 
time down to 1823, no question was mooted upon the subject. Captain Morris died in i8l2. In 181 5, it 
appears the corps took the name of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, in consequence, no doubt, 
of other similar troops having been formed. It was incorporated by that title by an act of Assembly passed 
April 4, 1S63, Pamph. L. 289. Were it at all material, there would perhaps not be much difficulty in tracing and 
making out the succession of the incoi-porated body to all the rights of property of the voluntary association, 
though the name was changed. It is not, however, important. If the property of the paper in question ever 
was in the association, or if there was ever a trust for them, what was done by them in 1823 puts an end to 
their claim. ' They then appointed a committee "to search for original documents and property of the Troop," 
who reported the facts of the case in regard to this order of discharge, stating that it was in the possession of 
Luke W. Morris, a son of Captain Morris, and that he considered "both the silver case and the letter of 
discharge as the property of his family," upon which report a resolution was adopted by the Troop that " they 
have no claim upon the silver case or the letter of discharge." Now, if they had any title before, here is a 
clear relinquishment to the family of Captain Morris — a gift, or what is the same thing, a solemn admission 
of a previous gift. On the other hand, not putting this, which seems to be the most natural, construction 
upon it, we have here a distinct assertion by Luke W. Morris of his absolute property, with no trust expressed, 
acquiesced in by the Troop, upon the faith of which he had a/ac simi'/e of the order engraved, and a number 
of copies struck off and presented to them. Surely, if it was a deposit or bailment before to which any trust 
attached, which would prevent the bar of the Statute of Limitations, such a relation ended at that time. Here 
was an open, express denial of the rights of the plaintiffs, followed by exclusive adverse possession, and full 
knowledge on the part of the cestuis que trust : Hill on Trustees 264, note. They lie by forty-three years 
without instituting any proceedings, either at law or in equity, to assert their alleged title, and it would be 
contrary to all principle and every decided case to listen to them at so late a day. 

Decree reversed, and now it is ordered and decreed that the bill be dismissed with costs. 
Within the past year there has been discovered among the papers of the Troop, the 
original letter" a copy of which Captain Dunlap sent to Captain Morris at the time of the 
preparation of the silver plate. This letter contains on the last line of its page and also in 

I Sec pages 40 and 41. 



the handwriting of Captain Dunlap the following :—" Copy delivered to Capt. Morris, 
Sept. 2, 1S03, J.D." The copy, which was produced at the time of the argument, and then 
supposed to be the original, had no date; and the learned judge in his opinion says the silver 
plate with this letter was presented by Captain Dunlap shortly after he had been chosen 
Captain in 1 794. If this had been the case it would indeed have been more difficult to 
understand his action, and, as the minutes of. that year have been lost, it- might even be 
possible to suppose that he was directed to hand the document to Captain Morris by a 
unanimous vote of the Troop. 

This letter fixes the date of the presentation of the plate in September, 1803. By 
referring to the minute-book we find, under date of June 30, 1803 :—" Captain Dunlap, 
Lieutenant Hall, and Lieutenant Smith, expressed their determination to resign their 
Commissions and requested the Troop to select proper characters to supply the vacancies 
occasioned by this event;" under date of July 29, 1803 :— " Captain Dunlap then informed 
the Troop that he, Lieutenant Hall, and Lieutenant Smith, had resigned their Commissions 
into the hands of the Governor." Resolutions of regret were passed at the same meeting. 
On the fifteenth of August an election was held to fill the vacancies, and Robert Wharton 
was chosen Captain, and Charles Ross and Joseph B. McKean, Lieutenants. 

On the seventeenth of October it was resolved that a public dinner be given to "the 
late officers of the Troop" on the third Saturday of the following month. It is supposed 
that the dinner did not take place. The minutes of a meeting held on the nineteenth 
of November (the day which had been fixed upon for the dinner), are silent on the subject, 
and but a single line mentions the receipt of the reply' of the late officers to the resolutions 
of regret which had been passed at the July meeting. These minutes are quoted to show 
that the best feeling prevailed between the Troop and Captain Dunlap, yet no allusion is 
made on its records, or in his letter, to the Washington Letter of Discharge, or to the silver 
case which he had gotten made for its safe-keeping. The giving of the document and case to 
Captain Morris, as the learned judge suggests in his opinion, was probably not done in a 
corner, but it is certainly very probable that the men who composed the active roll of the 
Troop in the year 1803 were not, as a body, consulted in the matter. 

The undoubted explanation of the motive of the gift is as follows :— The document with 
the other papers of the Troop was in the possession of Captain Dunlap during the time 
he was in command, 1794 to 1803. He must have received it from his predecessor, 
Captain Febiger, who must have received it from Captain Miles, who succeeded Captain 
Morris in 1786. This would only be carrying out the custom obtaining in all volunteer 
military organizations, and we know from living testimony that this was the usage in the 
Troop as early as 1813. Captain Dunlap and Lieutenant Hall were the last of the original 



members to retire from the active roll, they felt anxious that this record of honorable 
service should be preserved ; that although it was the property of the Troop as a body, yet 
the survivors of the men who had received it from the hands of Washington on the 
twenty-third of January, 1777, had some peculiar interest in it (Captain Dunlap put their 
names on the piece of cotton-cloth on which the letter was pasted), that it would be more 
jealously guarded by some one of their number, and that Captain Morris, who had been in 
command at the time of its receipt, should be its custodian. Captain Dunlap conceived the 
idea of putting the document in some kind of a case or box ; he would make this case of such 
intrinsic value that it would be locked up with the family plate, and thus its contents would 
be removed from many of the risks which attend the keeping of a piece of paper. 

In this way, in 1803, the document passed into the possession of the family which now 
holds it, and whose claims appear to have been strengthened by the unaccountable action of 
the Troop twenty years afterwards. Captain Dunlap should certainly have handed it to his 
successor in office — he could not with propriety have made a gift of it to any one. We are 
at a loss to discover the circumstances which induced the committee of 1823 to report "that 
the Troop have no claim upon the silver case or the letter of discharge," and cannot under- 
stand the adoption of a resolution in those words. No further mention of this letter appears 
on the minutes until thirty years more had elapsed, when a committee was appointed to obtain 
it from the family of Captain Morris. Mr. Samuel B. Morris, a grandson, had the letter, and 
refused to part with it; and in February, 1854, inclosed to the Troop an opinion of Henry 
J. Williams, Esq., in support of his claim. 

In 1863 the question was again agitated and the Troop, through its legal adviser 
Edward Wain, Esq. (a great-grandson of Captain Morris), demanded of Messrs. Samuel 
Morris and EUiston P. Morris, executors of Mr. Samuel B. Morris, who died in 1859, the 
restoration of the document, and, being refused, commenced the proceedings which resulted 
as set forth above. The Troop having exhausted its legal remedies, can only re-assert its 
honest belief in the justice of its claims to the Letter of Discharge, and express the hope 
that the present possessor may be convinced that, notwithstanding the circumstances which 
he believes secures it to him through descent, the document should be in the archives of the 
Troop 



pENERAL OFFICERS of the First Brigade, 
VT (National Guard.) 



First Division, Pennsylvania Militia 



Major Generals. 

COMMISSIONED. 

1793 James Irvine. 

1794 Walter .Stewart. 
1796 Thomas Proctor. 

1800 Thomas Mifflin. 
1800 Thomas Proctor. 
1802 John Shee. 

1807 John Barker. 
1S08 Isaac Worrall. 



1824 Thomas Cadwalader. 
1828 Robert Patterson. 



1867 Charles M. Prevost. 



Brigadier Generals. 
1793 Thomas Proctor. 



1796 William M.4cpherson. 
1799 Francis Gurnev. 



1802 John Shee. 

1803 John Barker. 
1807 Michael Bright. 

iSio Robert Wharton. 

1 812 George Bartram. 

1814 Thomas Cadwalader. 

1824 Robert Patterson. 

1828 Andrew M. Prevost. 

1842 George Cadwalader. 

1865 John P. Bankson. 



CENTENNIAL ORDERS. 



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Armory, Philadelphia, November gth, 1874. 

GENERAL ORDERS No. IX. 

I. After November 14th, 1874, the Temporary Armorj? will be 
abandoned and the Troop will occupy its New Armory, Twenty-firft and 
Alh Streets, built in commemoration of its Centennial. 



//. The Troop will afremble at the Armory in Full Drefs, mounted 
order, (white breeches,) difmounted, on Sunday, November 15th; 1874, 
at 9 o'clock, A. M., to attend Divine Service at Saint Peter's Church in 
the morning, and alfo a Special Military Service at Saint Clement's Church 
in the afternoon. 

///. The Troop will affemble at the Armory in Full Drefs, 
mounted order, (white breeches and ball fpurs,) difmounted, on Monday, 
November i6th, 1874, at 7 o'clock, P. M., to conduft the Reception to be 
given on that evening, being the occafion of the formal opening of the 
New Armory. 

/r The Troop will affemble at the Armor>' in Full Drefs, mounted 
order, (white breeches,) mounted, on Tuefday, November 17th, 1874, at 
12 o'clock, noon, being the One Hundredth Anniversary of the organi- 
zation of the Troop, to take part in the Divifion Parade ordered in honour 
of that event. 

]". The Troop will affemble at the Armory in Full Drefs, mounted 
order, (white breeches and ball fpurs,) difmounted, on Tuefday, November 
17th, 1874, ^XjYi o'clock, P. M., to participate in the Centennial Banquet. 
By order, 

M. EDWARD ROGERS, 

Captain. 
JOS. LAPSLEY WILSON, 

Firft Sergeant. 



1774 ^^74 

FIRST TROOP 
PHILADELPHIA CITY CAVALRY. 

NOVEMBER 17 th, 1874. 



BILL OF FARE. 



Oysters on Shell. 

Latour Blanche. Chateau Y'Quem. 

Julienne Soup. Soup h. la Reine. 

Sherry. 

Boiled Salmon, Lobster Sauce. Baked Rock, Madeira Sauce. 

Lieefraumilch. Hocheimer. 

Filet de Bo?uf. Hot Boned Turkey. 

Vegetables. 

Champagne, " F. T. P. C. C." 

Pate il la Financiere. 

Sweet Breads and Peas. Croquettes. 

Roman Punch frozen in Oranges. 

Boned Pheasants. Roast Grouse. 

Boned Partridges. Roast Quail. 

Terrapin. 

Champagne Frappe, " F. T. P. C. C' 

Canvasback Ducks. 

Madeira. 

Lettuce. Fried Oysters. Pat4 de Foies Gras. 

Roquefort Cheese. Crackers. 

Chambertin. 

Ices. Jellies. Charlotte Russe. Meringues. 

Fruits. Almonds. Raisins, Confections. 

Coffee. 

Liqueurs. 

Piece MontSe. 

Cigars. Cigarettes. 

Cognac. Whiskey. 



INDEX. 



Index. 



\ CTIVF, ROLI 

Allen, Lieut., resigns .... 
Anniversary. Fiftieth, of the Troop 
One Hundredth, " 

Armories, 

Comer-stone of Armory of lS63,laid 
1874, " 
Atlantic Telegraphic Cable, Procession in 
celebration of the laying of . 
■pAiNBRiDGE, Wm. Capt., U. S. N., Escort of 

Bank of the United States, 1780 . 

Subscriptions by Troopers to 
. Escort of specie for 
Bankson, John P., Address at Centenni.il 

Banquet 
Biddle, James, Com. U.S.N., Funeral Escort of 
BiRNEY, David B . , Maj. Gen . , Funeral Escort of 
Board of War, 1781, Letter of thanks from . 

Brandywine, Battle of 

British Hostages, Pursuit of escaped 

" Buckshot War " 

Burning of the Bridge at Columbia, Pa. 
Butler, Captain, Biographical Sketch of 



Page 

177 

5 
50 
91 
125 

79 



/^adwalader, George, Maj. Gen., U. S. A., 

Escort of 
Cameron, Simon, U. S. Senator; Address at 

Centennial Banquet 
Campaign of 1776-77 .... 

Members in ser\'ice 
Campaign of 1777, Sept., Oct. . 

Members in service . 
Campaign of 1777, Nov., Dec. . 

Campaign of 1778 

Campaign of 1779 

Members in service . 
Campaign of 1780 

Members in service . 
Campaign of 1781 

Members in service . 
Campaign of 1794 

Members in service . 
Campaign of 1799 ..... 

Members in service . 
Camp.aign of 1S14 

Members in service 
Campaign of 1838 

Members in service . 





Page 






Pagb 


Campaign of i86i .Acceptance of offer of services 


57 


■p\AVIES, 


Thomas F., D. D., Sermon . 


92 


Equipment Fund 


58 






Mustered into U. S. service 


58 


Decatur, 


Stephen, Com. U. S. N., Escort of 


15 


Left Philadelphia 


60 




Funeral escort of . 


56 


Attached to 2d U. S. Cavalry 


60 


De Silver, Harrison T., Major, Funeral of 


84 


Gen. Patterson in command 


60 


Detachment of Troop, at Albany, N. Y. 


5 


Gen. Banks in command 


64 




" (Appendix) . 




Returned to Philadelphia . 


65 




at Fort Ticonderoga 


5 


Mustered out of U.S. service 


66 




at Lancaster, Pa. 


S 


Members in service 


66 




at Cambridge, Mass. 


6 


Campaign of 1863, Acceptance of offer of ser- 






at New York . 


6 


vices .... 


71 




at Providence, R. I. 


6 


Left Philadelphia 


71 




with Gen. Mercer 


6 


Gen. Couch in command . 


71 




at Reading, Pa, 


6 


Returned to Philadelphia 


77 




at Williamsburg, Va. 


6 


Reported to Gen. Cadwal- 






at Amboy, N. J. 


6 


der for provost duty 


77 




with prisoners to 




Discharge from Gen. Cad- 






Reading, Pa. 


■3 


walader 


77 




with Washington at 




Discharge from Governor 






Chestnut Hill 


15 


Curtin 


78 




at York and Lan- 




Members and recruits in 






caster, Pa. . 


■5 


' service 


78 




with La Fayette, at 




Campaign of 1864, Tender of services declined 






Barren Hill . 


15 


by State and United States 






at Trenton, N. J. 


30 


authorities 


80 




to arrest spies, 1779 


16 


Acceptance of offer of ser- 






17S. 


31 


vice by Gen. Cadwalader 


80 




to conduct prisoners 




Discharge from Gen. Cad- 






to Fort Delaware . 


77 


walader 


81 




at Harrisburg, Pa. . 


88 


Captains 


'35 


Dinner Given to the Troop by citizens of 




Celebration of "The Triumph of Civil 






Philadelphia . 


79 


AND Religious Liberty in France " 


52 








Celebration of Centennial Anniversary 










of the Troop 


9' 








Services at St. Peter's and St. 




"PNCAMPMENT at Bath, Bucks Co. . 


52 


Clement's Churches 


92 




at Brandywine Springs, Ches- 




Reception at Armory 


97 




ter Co 


56 


Parade in honor of 


98 




at Bristol, Bucks Co. . 


57 


Banquet 


99 




at Chester, Delaware Co. 


53 


Members present at celebration 


106 




at Gwynned, Montgomery Co. 


55 


Orders (Appendix) 






at Yellow Springs, Chester Co. 


52 


Bill of Fare at Banquet (App'x). 




Escort of 


29th Regiment, Pa. Vols. 


79 



Escort of Return of the Volunteers from the 

war of the Rebellion . 
Equipment Fund, i86i . ... 

1864 (Appendix) 
Execution of British Emissaries 



.GE PaGB 

Hartranft, John F., Governor of Penna, 
82 I Inauguration of . 88 

Address at Centennial Banquet 107 

Honorary Ron 171 

28 Hull, Com. U.S.N. , Funeral escort of . -54 



"TfALLiNG Waters, Va., Skirmish at . .62 

Febiger, Captain, Biographical Sketch of 140 
Federal Procession, in honor of adoption of 

United States Constitution 33 

Fillmore, Millard, President, Escort of . 56 

Flags, presented by a number of ladies (l86l) 58 
Foundling Hospital . . .34,41 

" Fries' Insurrection " .... 38 

FRELINGHir/SEN, FREDERICK, Letter from 35 

Fullerton, Private George, killed . . 5 
Funeral Escort, Thomas Jefferson and John 

Adams . . . .51 

Henry Clay ... 57 

Dr. E. K. Kane, U. S. N. . 57 

Gen. P. F. Smith, U. S. A. . 57 
Brig. Gen. F. E. Patterson, 

U. S. A. . 70 

Col. UlricDahlgren, U.S.A. 82 

Adm. Chas. Stewart, U.S.N. 83 

Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, 

U.S. A 87 



/general Officers, ist Brig, ist Div. N. G. 
of Pennsylvania (Appendix) . 
Gerard M., French Embassador, Escort of 16, 18 

Germantown, Battle of .... 14 

Gloucester Fox-hunting Club . . 2 

Grigg, John W., Funeral of . . - . 83 

Grant, Ulysses S., President, Inauguration of 88 

TTAll, Lieut. William, Resignation of . 40 

Funeral of . 52 
Harrison, Wiu-iam Henry, President, 

Funeral escort of 54 

Hart, Captain, Biographical 6ketch of . 151 



TNAUGURATION of Governor of Pennsylvania, 

and of the President of the United 

States, 1873 88 

Jackson, Andrew, President of the United 

States, escort of . . 53 

Funeral Escort of . 56 
James, Captain, Funeral of . . -7° 

Dedication of Monument to 84 
Biographical .Sketch of -153 

Japanese Embassy, Escort of . . . 57 
Johnson, Andrew, President of the United 

States, Escort of . . 82 

Jones, Jacob, Capt. U. S. N., Escort of . 43 

T A Fayette at Barren Hill, Montgomery Co. 1 5 
•^ Escort of . . -49 

Lardner, Captain, Biographical Sketch of . 149 

Leipee, Thomas, First-Sergeant, Funeral of . 51 
Light Dragoons, Company of. Raised by 

members of the Troop . 37 
of Wilmington, Del. Guests 

of the Troop . , 55 
Lincoln, Abraham, President of the United 

States, escort of . . 80 

Funeral Escort of . 81 

Monument unveiled 87 

\ 4 ARKOE, Captain, chosen ... 4 

presents Standard . 4 

resigns .... 5 

Biographical Sketch of . 135 

Marshall, John, Sec'y of War, Escort of . 36 

Meeting Places AND Armories 125 

Mercer, Hugh, Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Letter 

from .... 6 

Re-interment of . . 54 



Page 

Miles, Captain, Biographical Sketch of . 138 

Morris, Captain, chosen .... 5 

Funeral of . . 43 

Biographical Sl^etch of . 136 

Morris, Robert, Jr., Major, Funeral of . 79 

MOTT, Gen'l, Address at Centennial Banquet, 1 10 

" Mount Bull " Campaign .... 44 

Camp Regulations (App'x.) 

Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line, 1781 . 27 

Proposals to Insurgents (App'x.) 

Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line, 17S3 33 



vton-Importation Agreement, i 765 (App'x) 
"Northampton Expedition" ... 38 



/^FFICERS, List of 

Orders, Centennial (Appendix) 
Original Members 
Original Officers . 



pAOLl Massacre, Annivei-saries of the . 

Paoli Monument, Subscription to restore 
Park, Mrs. Robert J., Silver presented to 
Parker, Joel, Governor of New Jersey, Ad- 
dress at Centennial Banquet 
Patterson, Robert, Maj. Gen. U. S. A., Letter 
from .... 
Address at Centennial 
Banquet 
Pickering, Timothy, Sec'y of State, Letter 

from 
Pierce, Franklin, President of the United 

States, Escort of . 
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, Letter from 
Pittsburgh Fire, Subscription to Relief-Fund 
Polk, James K., President of the [.Jnited States, 

Escort of . 
Powder Magazine, Duty at . . . 
Princeton, Battle of . , . • 



■p ANDALL, Cornet Samuel ]., 

Provost-martial at Columbia, Pa 
Reception Centennial ... 
Regiment of Cavalry, Troop joined 

Attempt made to 
recruit a 
Regiment op Infantry, Troop attached to 
Return of Battle Flags of the Pennsylvania 

Volunteer Regiments . 
Riley, Theodore M., D. D., Sennon . 
Riot at the House of James Wilson (1779) 
apprehended (1798) 
apprehended at execution of mail 

robber, Porter 
in the Northern Liberties I 1S34) 
in the " southern suburbs " ( 1S34) 
in Southwark (1842) 
in Kensington (1843) 

(1844) . 
in Southwark (1844) 
in Moyamensing (1849) 
apprehended (1868) 
apprehended (1869) 
Robeson, Miss Mary, Presentation of silver 

plate to . 
Rogers, Captain Fairman, Biographical 

sketch of 
Rogers, Captain M. Edward, Biographic: 
sketch of 

Rolls . 

Ross, Captain, Biographical sketch of . 
Funeral of . 

cchuylkill fishing company . 

Schuylkill Company of Fort St. Davids 
Sheridan, Philip H., Maj. Gen. U. S. A., 

Escort of 
Smith, Captain, presented with sword 

Biographical sketch of 
Smith, Lieut. Robert, Resignation of 
Sons of St. George, Society of . . . 
Sons of St. Patrick, "... 
St. Andrew's Society 



156 

157 
■45 
49 



S3 
49 
148 
40 
4 
3 
3 



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Standard Presented by Captain Markoe . 4 

The Old Standard . . ■ «I9 

The Standard of 1797 . ■ 123 

Subscribers to Company Fund, 1861 . . 58 

Armory Bonds, 1863 . .129 

Equipment Fund, 1864 (App'x) 

Centennial Fund, 1874 • ■ >33 

'T'^AYLOR, Zachary, President of the United 

States, Funeral of . 5^ 
Thomas, George H., Maj. Gen. U. S. A., Me- 
morial services . . 83 

Trenton, Battle of 8 

Tyler, John, President of the United States, 

Escort of . . . .54 

rjNiFORM . . 4.34.37.42,52.59 

U. S. Centennial Commission, Transfer of 

land for the use of 88 
" Washington Assembly." In aid of 89 

\ r AN BuREN Martin, President of the United 

States, Escort of . 54 



\T7AR (IF THE REVOLUTION .... 5 

War WITH Great Britain, 1812. Troop offers 

its services 43 
War of the Rebellion, Troop offers its 

services, 1861 . 57 



War of the Rebellion, Troop offers its 

services, 1862 . 68 

" 1863 . 70 

" May, 1864 . 80 

July, 1864 . 80 

Washington, Escort of . . 5,12,32,34 

Letters of Discharge from . 11,24 

Complimentary remarks by ( Note) 34 



Dinner given to . . • 

" (Appendixj 

Funeral of ... • 
Washington, Mrs., Escort of . 
Washington Letter of Discharge, 1777 . 
Placed in the keeping of 
Ex-Captain Morris , 
Proceedings in Equity 
for the recovery of 
(Appendix) 
Washington Monument, Subscription to by 
Troopers . 
Corner-stone laid . 
Wayne, Anthony, Maj. Gen. U. S. A., Dinner 
given to . . • 

Welsh, J. L., Private, taken prisoner 
Wharton, Captain, Biographical sketch of . 
" Whiskey Insurrection" 
White, E. W., Private, leg broken 
Willing, Charles M., Private, Funeral of . 



33 



39 

5.23 



52 
52 

36 
75 
144 

34 
72 



"VroRKTOWN, Reception of Captured British 

Standards . . . -31 



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